The GRClass visual programming system

Author

Rogers, Greg

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

4-6 Oct 1990

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

53

Abstract

The GRClass system, which combines graphics, relations, and classes to provide a visual interface for programming graph data structures within an object-oriented framework, is discussed. This is done by extending the object-oriented model with interobject relations. These relations are then used to directly implement the conceptual model of the graph data structures. Within the GRClass framework, data structures are objects that maintain relation tables. These relations and the objects participating in the relations constitute the form of the data structure. A graphical notation is used to specify the possible relations and to manipulate the relation graph. GRClass is implemented within the Andrew Toolkit programming environment

Keywords

data structures; visual programming; Andrew Toolkit programming environment; GRClass visual programming system; classes; graphics; interobject relations; object-oriented model; programming graph data structures; relation graph; relation tables; visual interface; Computational modeling; Computer Society; Computer graphics; Computer science; Data structures; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Programming environments; Programming profession; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1990., Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Skokie, IL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2090-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WVL.1990.128381

Filename

128381