Object-oriented programming for the Macintosh
Object-oriented programming for the Macintosh
A cookbook for using the model-view controller user interface paradigm in Smalltalk-80
Journal of Object-Oriented Programming
A knowledge-based user interface management system
CHI '88 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
UIST '88 Proceedings of the 1st annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User Interface Software
Clue: a common lisp user interface environment
UIST '88 Proceedings of the 1st annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User Interface Software
Encapsulating interactive behaviors
CHI '89 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Design alternatives for user interface management sytems based on experience with COUSIN
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '85 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
There's more to menu systems than meets the screen
SIGGRAPH '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
User-Interface Tools: Introduction and Survey
IEEE Software
Separating the user interface from the functionality of application programs
Separating the user interface from the functionality of application programs
Frameworks for interactive, extensible, information-intensive applications
UIST '92 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Selectors: going beyond user-interface widgets
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACE: building interactive graphical applications
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on graphical user interfaces
Knowledgeable development environments using shared design models
IUI '93 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
SAAM: a method for analyzing the properties of software architectures
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
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The user interface building blocks of any User Interface Management System (UIMS) have built-in assumptions about what information about application programs they need, and assumptions about how to get that information. The lack of a standard to represent this information leads to a proliferation of different assumptions by different building blocks, hampering changeability of the user interface and portability of applications to different sets of building blocks. This paper describes a formalism for specifying the information about applications needed by the user interface building blocks (i.e. the UIMS/Application interface) so that all building blocks share a common set of assumptions. The paper also describes a set of user interface building blocks specifically designed for these standard UIMS/Application interfaces. These building blocks can be used to produce a wide variety of user interfaces, and the interfaces can be changed without having to change the application program.