Films as graphical comments in the source code of programs

Author

Mossenbock, Hanspeter

Author_Institution

Johannes Kepler Univ., Linz, Austria

fYear

1997

fDate

28 Jul-1 Aug 1997

Firstpage

89

Lastpage

98

Abstract

The author suggests using animated pictures (films) as graphical comments in the source code of programs. Such pictures can be played forwards and backwards in steps under the control of the user. They can have multiple branches, which lead to different pictures. Animation effects can be applied to show how a picture changes over time. This can be useful for visualizing the dynamic behavior of programs. He shows how to extend an object-oriented graphics editor so that it can be used for creating and viewing films. He also explains how such films can be embedded into the source code of programs using a text framework

Keywords

computer animation; data visualisation; object-oriented programming; software tools; animated pictures; animation effects; dynamic behavior visualization; films; graphical comments; object-oriented graphics editor; program source code; text framework; Animation; Color; Data structures; Documentation; Graphics; Joining processes; Programming profession; Text processing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, 1997. TOOLS 23. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8383-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TOOLS.1997.654704

Filename

654704