Leonard J. Bass – Communications of the ACM

Research and Advances Jun 1 1985

A generalized user interface for applications programs (II)

A display-screen management system for user interaction with an arbitrary application program is simple enough so that the end user controls the dialogue and screens yet powerful enough to provide for user specification of screen geometry, input constraints, computation facilities, and display logic—quite independently of the application system.

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Research and Advances Dec 1 1981

A generalized user interface for applications programs

A general method for using disk files (instead of a more conventional parameter-passing mechanism) to transfer control information from a user interface to a set of related applications programs is described. This technique effectively moves much of the user interface, including command decoding and limited parameter checking, from the applications programs to a table-driven executive.

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