Sawyer, P. and Sommerville, I., "A User Interface Framework for an Object-Oriented Database System," in Software Tools for User Interface Design, ed., Peter Peregrinus Ltd., England, (1990).  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles

....specification tool . a design editor utility . and a knowledge system interaction tool The requirements capture exercise and specification of a given application being designed is performed through the use of concepts similar to the principle of the dynamic forms metaphor [Sawyer,88] Sawyer,90] The dynamic forms metaphor allows the representations of objects semantics visually. It can also exploit the characteristics of the object model itself [Wegner,90] The form based interface provides a good mechanism for both defining and displaying objects. This metaphor is also supplemented by ....

....form, for recall and for further processing such as the generation of Simula stubs which is described in the next section. The second kind of information about the application is gathered by interaction with the Graphical User Inteface (GUI) The GUI uses the idea of dynamic forms metaphor [Sawyer,90] The choice of an object type will generate a pop up form for the user to fill in the characteristics of the object (see figure 7.4) These forms, associated with each of the icons, perform the role of objects data managers . Process 1 Process 2 Resource Activity 1 Activity 2 done ....

Sawyer, P. and Sommerville, I., "A User Interface Framework for an Object-Oriented Database System," in Software Tools for User Interface Design, ed., Peter Peregrinus Ltd., England, (1990).

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