Object-oriented architecture of measurement systems: The user-interface

The authors give an overview of a concurrent, object-oriented (OO) programming paradigm suited to the development of measurement systems. They show how the design of the graphical user-interface can also fit naturally within the chosen OO architecture and can be implemented in terms of reusable object libraries supporting the construction of user-interfaces. An approach has been proposed to the development of the software of an intelligent measurement system, which is based on the adoption of a concurrent, OO programming model named RTO - real time objects, which is described. RTO integrates in a natural way the OO development of the graphical user-interface. View objects are introduced which mirror the physical object features and help the user to take control of the data required in the stages of a test method