An Object-Oriented Architecture for Constraint-Based Graphical Editing (1995)
| Venue: | In Third Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics |
| Citations: | 23 - 6 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Helm95anobject-oriented,
author = {Richard Helm and Tien Huynh and Kim Marriott and John Vlissides},
title = {An Object-Oriented Architecture for Constraint-Based Graphical Editing},
booktitle = {In Third Eurographics Workshop on Object-Oriented Graphics},
year = {1995},
pages = {217--238},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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Abstract
Direct-manipulation graphics editors are useful tools for a wide variety of domains such as technical drawing, computer-aided design, application building, and music composition. Constraints can be a powerful mechanism for specifying complex semantics declaratively in these domains. To date, few domain-specific graphics editors have provided constraintbased specification and manipulation facilities. Part of the reason is that graphical editors are hard enough to develop without implementing a constraint system as well. Even though graphical editing frameworks can reduce the difficulty of constructing domain specific graphical editors, a fundamental problem remains: there do not exist general constraint solving architectures that are efficient enough to support highly interactive editing, yet suitably flexible and extensible to adapt to different editing domains. Addressing this problem, we present an object-oriented architecture that integrates the graphical editing framework Unidraw w...
