Abstract
Creating GUI programs is hard even for prototyping purposes. Using the model-view paradigm makes it somewhat simpler since the model-view paradigm dictates that the model contains no GUI programming, as this is done by the views. Still, a lot of GUI programming is needed to implement the views.
We present a new method for constructing GUI applications that fits well in the model-view paradigm. Novel in our approach is that the views also contain no actual GUI programming. Instead, views are constructed in a fully compositional way by defining a model of the view. We use a technique developed earlier to generate the GUI part. We show how the method supports flexibility, compositionality and incremental change by introducing abstract components in the view models.
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Achten, P., van Eekelen, M., Plasmeijer, R. (2004). Compositional Model-Views with Generic Graphical User Interfaces. In: Jayaraman, B. (eds) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. PADL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3057. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24836-1_4
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