The ISI visual design editor generator

Author

Goldman, Neil M. ; Balzer, Robert M.

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

27

Abstract

The benefits of “domain specific” languages and development environments are widely recognized. Constructing an environment for a new domain, however, remains a costly activity, requiring expertise in several areas of software development as well as in the targeted domain. The ISI design editor generator and design environment comprises novel infrastructure that simplifies this task, producing visual domain-specific design environments. This paper presents the runtime architecture of these environments, a visual “specify-by-example” capability that deals with a major portion of editor generation, and an implementation that uses a COTS product (Microsoft PowerPoint) as both graphic middleware and end-user GUI

Keywords

automatic programming; client-server systems; graphical user interfaces; programming environments; end-user GUI; graphic middleware; runtime architecture; software development; visual design editor generator; visual domain-specific design environments; Algorithm design and analysis; Design engineering; Feedback; Graphical user interfaces; Graphics; Intersymbol interference; Power engineering and energy; Programming; Protocols; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0216-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1999.795871

Filename

795871