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An approach to user interface specification with attribute grammars

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An approach to supporting user interfaces using an attribute grammar combined with an event model is described. The main emphasis is how to represent a multi-thread dialogue model in direct manipulation user interfaces. It is shown that control sequence within dialogues, communication with other dialogues, and some computations for applications can be specified with a syntactic and semantic notation. The attribute grammar specification can be implemented using an attribute grammar interpreter embedded in the run-time structure supporting communication synchronization, and dialogue execution.

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  1. Hua Qingyi

    Present address: Department of Computer Science, Northwest University, 710069, Xi’an, P.R. China

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, D-64283, Darmstadt, F.R. Germany

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For the biography ofHua Qingyi, please refer to Vol. 11, No. 5, p., 496 of this journal.

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Hua, Q. An approach to user interface specification with attribute grammars. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 12, 65–75 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943146

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