On the way to intelligent query for functions in visual languages

Author

Haberland, Bert ; Poswig, Jörg ; Moraga, Claudio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Dortmund Univ., Germany

fYear

1993

Firstpage

365

Lastpage

367

Abstract

The aim of developing a visual programming language is not achieved when the implementation of programs is possible, but still, as in the textual world, a complete software environment is needed. This paper describes an improvement of the function container of VisaVis. The flat 2-dimensional way of accessing functions is replaced by a hierarchical and 3-dimensional one. Cone Trees are extended by a query language into Cone Graphs. The basic concept of user interaction, substitution, was taken from VisaVis. For the optimization of user interaction, a user interface prototype has been developed

Keywords

database management systems; graphical user interfaces; programming environments; query languages; visual languages; Cone Graphs; Cone Trees; VisaVis; intelligent query; software environment; substitution; user interaction; user interface; visual languages; visual programming language; Automatic programming; Computer languages; Computer science; Containers; Database languages; Functional programming; Programming profession; Prototypes; Tree graphs; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1993., Proceedings 1993 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bergen

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3970-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1993.269563

Filename

269563