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Abstract | ||
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Visual languages have an important role in modelling systems, in specification of software, and in specific application domains.
A processor for a visual language consists of a graphical frontend attached to phases that analyse and transform the visual
programs. Hence, the construction of a visual language processor requires a wide range of conceptual and technical knowledge:
from issues of visual design and graphical implementation to aspects of analysis and transformation for languages in general.
We present a powerful toolset that incorporates such knowledge up to a high specification level. Visual editors are generated
by identifying certain patterns in the language structure and selecting a visual representation from a set of precoined solutions.
Visual programs are represented by attributed abstract trees. Hence, further phases of processing the visual programs can
be generated by state-of-the-art tools for language implementation. We demonstrate that ambitious visual languages can be
implemented with reasonable small effort and with rather limited technical knowledge. The approach is suitable for a large
variety of visual language styles.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2001 | 10.1007/3-540-45306-7_25 | CC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
visual patterns,vleli system,visual programming,visual design | Specification language,Attribute grammar,Visual language,Communication design,Programming language,Graphical language,Computer science,Visual programming language,Software,Visual patterns | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
3-540-41861-X | 1 | 0.37 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthias T. Jung | 1 | 16 | 1.94 |
| Uwe Kastens | 2 | 406 | 55.65 |
| Christian Schindler | 3 | 1 | 1.04 |
| Carsten Schmidt | 4 | 11 | 2.71 |