A tool for automated code generation for designing user interfaces on character terminals

Author

Manohar, Nitin ; Bhatia, M.P.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Netaji Subhas Inst. of Technol., New Delhi, India

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

159

Abstract

The Unix “curses” library provides terminal independent capability for designing user interfaces (UI) on 80×25 resolution character terminals. UI designers have to put a lot of effort into design and producing good and effective UI using complex curses library calls. The authors propose the architecture of a tool for the curses library. This tool equips the UI designer with an automatic code generation facility for the curses library through graphical system specification. The UI designer will be able to input user needs graphically, and the tool will in turn generate the code

Keywords

Unix; computer graphics; formal specification; program compilers; software libraries; user interface management systems; UI designers; Unix curses library; automated code generation; automatic code generation facility; character terminals; complex curses library calls; graphical system specification; terminal independent capability; user interface design; user needs; Character generation; Databases; Delay; Displays; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Libraries; Monitoring; Operating systems; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoutheastCon 2001. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Clemson, SC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6748-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2001.923106

Filename

923106