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Graphics interface tool development in a problem solving environment

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A Problem Solving Environment (PSE) is an integrated system of application tools that support the solution of a given problem, or a set of related problems. Paramount in the development of such environments is the design, specification and integration of user interface tools that communicate between the application tools of the system and the user. Typically these interactions are object oriented and involve the interaction with tool parameters, which in many applications (CAD/ CAM, Imaging Systems, Image Processing), are represented by graphical data. This paper describes a user-interface tool development system in which both textual and graphical display, and interaction techniques are integrated under a single model. This allows the user to interact with tool parameters in either graphical or textual modes, and to have the parameters displayed in the manner most relevant to the problem set.

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  1. Signal and Image Processing Laboratory, Division of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

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Joy, K.I. Graphics interface tool development in a problem solving environment. The Visual Computer 2, 63–71 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01900313

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