Vixels, createthroughs, dragthroughs and attachment regions in BuildByWire

Author

Mugridge, W.B. ; Hosking, J.G. ; Grundy, J.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Auckland Univ., New Zealand

fYear

1998

fDate

30 Nov-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

327

Abstract

BuildByWire is a direct-manipulation meta-editor for composing sophisticated visual notations and their editors from JavaBean components. It in turn generates JavaBeans, which can be plugged into other tools. BuildByWire has been used to generate editors for a variety of visual languages and notations. We describe new features that eliminate several previous limitations of BuildByWire and its generated editors. The designer of a notation now has more control over the tools that are provided in the generated editor. The composition of notational elements using layout managers has been improved. Connectors between notational elements have been made more general and flexible

Keywords

Java; application generators; graphical user interfaces; program visualisation; user interface management systems; visual languages; BuildByWire; JavaBeans; attachment regions; createthroughs; direct-manipulation meta-editor; dragthroughs; editor generator; layout managers; notational element connectors; user interface; visual languages; visual notation composition; vixels; Computer science; Connectors; Design automation; Identity-based encryption; Java; Process design; Programming; Reactive power; Read only memory; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Human Interaction Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Australasian

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9206-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OZCHI.1998.732231

Filename

732231