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The MViews framework for constructing multi-view editing environments (1993)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Grundy, John C. Hosking, John G. |
| Abstract | MViews attempts to abstract out the common features of multi-view editing environments that support integrated textual and graphical programming with consistency management. It provides a conceptual model and reusable object-oriented framework for constructing interactive programming environments that provide multiple textual and graphical views. It supports multiple views of a base document, maintaining consistency between each of the views using an update record mechanism. MViews has been used to construct a visual programming environment for an object-oriented language featuring both graphical and textual views of the program. Other applications of MViews under development include entity-relationship and dataflow diagrammers, a visual debugger and a dialog box painter. 1. Introduction Diagrams are useful in all phases of the software lifecycle to help explain and understand concepts that are difficult to describe in text (Davis, 1988). In objectoriented programming, for example, di... |
| File Format | |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Journal | Proceedings New Zealand Computer Science Research Students' Conference |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Mviews Framework Multi-view Editing Environment Visual Debugger Dataflow Diagrammers Software Lifecycle Introduction Diagram Common Feature Base Document Graphical Programming Interactive Programming Environment Textual View Multiple View Conceptual Model Mviews Attempt Reusable Object-oriented Framework Dialog Box Painter Objectoriented Programming Update Record Mechanism Consistency Management Object-oriented Language Graphical View Visual Programming Environment |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
