CPN/Tools: A Post-WIMP Interface for Editing and Simulating Coloured Petri Nets

  • Authors:
  • Michel Beaudouin-Lafon;Wendy E. Mackay;Peter Andersen;Paul Janecek;Mads Jensen;Henry Michael Lassen;Kasper Lund;Kjeld Høyer Mortensen;Stephanie Munck;Anne V. Ratzer;Katrine Ravn;Søren Christensen;Kurt Jensen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICATPN '01 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

CPN/Tools is a major redesign of the popular Design/CPN tool from the University of Aarhus CPN group. The new interface is based on advanced, post-WIMP interaction techniques, including bi-manual interaction, toolglasses and marking menus and a new metaphor for managing the workspace. It challenges traditional ideas about user interfaces, getting rid of pull-down menus, scrollbars, and even selection, while providing the same or greater functionality. It also uses the new and much faster CPN simulator and features incremental syntax checking of the nets. CPN/Tools requires an OpenGL graphics accelerator and will run on all major platforms.