The ISI Visual Design Editor Generator

  • Authors:
  • Neil M. Goldman;Robert M. Balzer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • VL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages
  • Year:
  • 1999

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The benefits of "domain specific" languages and development environments are widely recognized. Constructing an environment for a new domain, however, remains a costly activity, requiring expertise in several areas of software development as well as in the targeted domain. The ISI design editor generator and design environment comprises a novel infrastructure that simplifies this task, producing visual domain-specific design environments. This paper presents the runtime architecture of these environments, a visual "specify-by-example" capability that deals with a major portion of editor generation, and an implementation that uses a COTS product (Microsoft PowerPoint) as both graphic middleware and end-user GUI.