The table widget reloaded: requirements, design and implementation
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction
Comparing the usability of grid-bag and constraint-based layouts
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
The auckland layout editor: an improved GUI layout specification process
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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Many major programming platforms support layout managers in Grid-bag style, where GUI elements can be placed on a rectangular grid. In Grid-bag layout mangers, cells of the underlying grid can be merged in order to create more complex layouts. In this work we classify software engineering issues with Grid-bag layout managers - chiefly bad coupling and a low level of abstraction - into several levels of severity of these issues. In the past we have presented the Auckland Layout Model, which is based on tabstops instead of gridlines. The Auckland Layout Model provides several layers of abstraction and avoids the bad coupling phenomena encountered in Grid-bag Layout. In this work we report on a platform-independent reduction of Grid-bag Layout to Auckland Layout, thus establishing that Grid-bag Layout can be implemented on top of Auckland Layout Model. The reduction of Grid-bag Layout to Auckland Layout presented here is based on an abstract datatype called a Grid-bag analyzer.