The design of a programmer's interface for an interactive microcomputer animation tool

  • Authors:

  • Kathleen Neumann;D. V. Pigford

  • Affiliations:

  • Western Illinois University;Western Illinois University

  • Venue:
  • CSC '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

A tool to aid in the production of computer generated animation is imperative in the development of graphics applications. With access to an animation tool, the efficiency of the programmer in a microcomputer environment can be greatly increased in regard to programming time and in program complexity. The design of the interface for such a tool must be carefully planned and implemented. The following is an overview of the desirable design features — on-line help, tutorial, function keys, and pull-down menus — that were incorporated into animation tools at Western Illinois University.