The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development

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The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development (1996)

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by Brad A. Myers , Rich McDaniel , Rob Miller , Alan Ferrency , Patrick Doane , Andrew Faulring , Ellen Borison , Andy Mickish , Alex Klimovitski

Venue:	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Citations:	146 - 27 self

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@ARTICLE{Myers96theamulet,
    author = {Brad A. Myers and Rich McDaniel and Rob Miller and Alan Ferrency and Patrick Doane and Andrew Faulring and Ellen Borison and Andy Mickish and Alex Klimovitski},
    title = {The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User Interface Software Development},
    journal = {IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
    year = {1996},
    volume = {23},
    pages = {347--365}
}

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The Amulet user interface development environment makes it easier for programmers to create highly-interactive, graphical user interface software for Unix, Windows or Macintosh. Amulet uses new models for objects, constraints, animation, input, output, commands, and undo. The object system is a prototype-instance model in which there is no distinction between classes and instances or between methods and data. The constraint system allows any value of any object to be computed by arbitrary code and supports multiple constraint solvers. Animations can be attached to existing objects with a single line of code. Input from the user is handled by "Interactor" objects which support reuse of behavior objects. The output model provides a declarative definition of the graphics, and supports automatic refresh. Command objects encapsulate all of the information needed about operations, including support for various ways to undo them. An key feature of the Amulet design is that all graphical objec...

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new model effective user interface software development amulet environment output model constraint system amulet user interface development environment multiple constraint solver graphical user interface software object system graphical objec various way behavior object automatic refresh amulet design single line declarative definition arbitrary code key feature support reuse prototype-instance model

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