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The majority of windowing systems provide a single, unique “look and feel” which applications must assume. Users of multi-platform environments are forced to accept that applications appear and behave differently depending on the platform. This paper describes DHE-Win, an open distributed software architecture that allows users, even in heterogeneous environments, to control the appearance and behaviour of applications. DHE-Win allows users of multi-platform environments to benefit from applications having a consistent appearance and behaviour.
Furthermore, it is shown that DHE-Win architecture is radically simpler to implement than existing windowing toolkits, thanks to its highly modular structure and separation of policy and mechanism.
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Owen, D., Rawsthorne, A. (1999). Consistent Windowing Interfaces in Distributed Heterogeneous Environments. In: Kutvonen, L., König, H., Tienari, M. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II. DAIS 1999. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35565-8_25
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