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An interactive environment for the development of graphical user interfaces (IUICE) is presented. The environment provides an event-based language which allows an interactive and graphical specification of user interface applications. IUICE applications consist of methods which have event inputs and event outputs and are connected together by so-called event streams. Additional graphical support for event propagation and parent-child relations is provided for all methods that have graphical responses as side-effects to the receipt of events on one of their inputs. Methods which have been created or modified by the programmer, are compiled and linked dynamically to the IUICE environment at execution time. The IUICE system is intended for the development of prototypes as well as fully specified graphical applications. A first prototype implementation of IUICE and further applications which are planned to be developed within the environment are also discussed.
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Sturm, P. (1991). IUICE — An Interactive User Interface Construction Environment. In: Duce, D.A., Gomes, M.R., Hopgood, F.R.A., Lee, J.R. (eds) User Interface Management and Design. EurographicSeminars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76283-3_16
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