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Issues of extending the user interface of integrated development environments

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Samuel Hsiao-Heng Chang,

Richard Anthony Priest,

Beryl PlimmerAuthors Info & Claims

CHINZ '08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapter's International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Design Centered HCI

Pages 23 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/1496976.1496980

Published: 02 July 2008 Publication History

Abstract

The current level of extensibility of integrated development environments (IDEs) does not provide sufficient access to make modifications to their user interface components. This limits innovation in IDEs. This paper reviews the problems we have encountered and presents alternative ways to help developers achieve their goals of extending user interface components. Developers interested in extending existing applications will appreciate the information on likely problems and solutions with extensible architectures. Furthermore general suggestions for software architecture extensions to maximize extensibility are included.

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CHINZ '08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand Chapter's International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Design Centered HCI

July 2008

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DOI:10.1145/1496976

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