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The document discusses different tools that provide support for implementing interactive systems, including windowing systems, interaction toolkits, and user interface management systems (UIMS). It describes key elements of windowing systems like device independence and resource sharing. It also outlines common programming paradigms like the read-evaluation loop and notification based approaches. Finally, it examines conceptual architectures for UIMS, including the Seeheim model and Model-View-Controller triad.

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The document discusses different tools that provide support for implementing interactive systems, including windowing systems, interaction toolkits, and user interface management systems (UIMS). It describes key elements of windowing systems like device independence and resource sharing. It also outlines common programming paradigms like the read-evaluation loop and notification based approaches. Finally, it examines conceptual architectures for UIMS, including the Seeheim model and Model-View-Controller triad.

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IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT

Objectives: Programming Tools for interactive systems provide : - a means of effectively translating abstract designs and usability principles into an executable form - different level of services for the programmer Windowing Systems : - central environment for the programmer and the user - allowing a single workstation to support separate user-system threads of action simultaneously Interaction Toolkits : - allowing the programmer to describe behaviors of objects at a level similar to how the user perceives them User Interface Management Systems (UIMS) : - the final level of programming support tools - allowing the designer and the programmer to control the relationship between the presentation objects of a toolkit with their functional semantics in the actual application Elements of Windowing Systems Two features : Device Independence konsep abstract terminal Resource Sharing multiple application control Abstract Terminal : makes the programming task easier makes portability of application programs possible Device Driver (translation program) :
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needs to be written for a particular hardware device and then any application program can access it. Contoh Abstract Terminal : Pixels Graphical Kernel System (GKS) Programmers Hierarchical Interface to Graphics (PHIGS) PostScript

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Application program

Application program

Application program

Windowing System

Multiple Application Control Device Independence

Mouse

Win. 2

Win. 1 Win. n Keyboard

Fig. 01. The Roles of Windowing System

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Architectures of Windowing Systems Clients Client Application 1 Abstract Terminal 1 Server Resource Manager Client Application 2 Abstract Terminal 2 Client Application n Abstract Terminal n

...

...

Device Driver Devices

Mouse

Win. 2

Win. 1 Win. n Keyboard

Fig. 02. The Client Server Architecture

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Programming The Application Programming Paradigm : Read-Evaluation Loop Notification Based

Client Aplication Start

Read input

Server

Device

Process input

Quit?

End

Fig. 03. The Read-Evaluation Loop Paradigm

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Application Start

Notifier

Register callbacks with notifier

Call notifier Read input End Send to appropriate callback

Process event

Callback Request Quit ?

no

yes

Fig. 04. The Notification Based Programming Paradigm

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User Interface Management Systems (UIMS) The main concerns of a UIMS: A conceptual architecture for the structure of an interactive system which concentrates on a separation between application semantics and presentation Techniques for implementing a separated application and presentation Support techniques for managing, implementing and evaluating a run time interaction environment The Logical Components of a UIMS : Presentation Dialogue control Application interface Lexical Intended Presentation User Component Syntactic
Dialogue Control

Semantic
App. Intr. Model

Intended App.

Fig. 05. The Seeheim model of the logical components of a UIMS

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View Display Model Mouse Controller Keyboard Fig. 06. The Model-View-Controller triad in Smalltalk User

Abstraction

Presentation

User

Control

Fig. 07. The Presentation-Abstraction-Control model of Coutaz

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