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Constraint technology for user-interface construction in ThingLab II

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J. Moloney,

A. Borning,

B. Freeman-BensonAuthors Info & Claims

OOPSLA '89: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications

Pages 381 - 388

https://doi.org/10.1145/74877.74917

Published: 01 September 1989 Publication History

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ThingLab II is an object-oriented constraint programming system designed specifically for interactive user interface construction and implemented in Smalltalk-80 For constraints to be effective in building user interfaces, they must not impede the responsiveness of the user interface either at run time or during construction. The necessary speed is attained in ThingLab II by making judicious tradeoffs between compilation and interpretation, and by using a fast, incremental algorithm for constraint satisfaction. The resulting system allows user interface components to be assembled, tested, and modified expediently while maintaining interactive responsiveness.

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OOPSLA '89: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications

September 1989

528 pages

ISBN:0897913337

DOI:10.1145/74877

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George Bosworth
Digitalk, Inc.

ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 24, Issue 10
Special issue: Proceedings of the 1989 ACM OOPSLA conference on object-oriented programming
Oct. 1989
446 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/74878
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Richard L. Wexelblat
IDA/CSED, Alexandria, VA
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