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Statemaster: A UIMS based on statecharts for prototyping and target implementation

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, Volume 20, Issue SI

Pages 177 - 182

https://doi.org/10.1145/67450.67486

Published: 01 March 1989 Publication History

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Most User Interface Management systems are state based and some use state transition diagrams for dialog specification. Although these diagrams have significant advantages, they suffer from drawbacks that make them impractical for the specification of complex user interfaces. Statecharts are a hierarchical extension of state transition diagrams and are well suited for specification of complex user interface dialogs. Statemaster is a UIMS implemented in C + + that uses statecharts for dialog specification. It has been successfully used both for rapid prototyping and target implementation of user interfaces. This paper describes the use of statecharts for dialog specification and the implementation of Statemaster.

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Volume 20, Issue SI

March 1989

374 pages

ISSN:0736-6906

DOI:10.1145/67450

Editors:
K. Bice
Texas Instruments
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C. Lewis
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

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CHI '89: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
March 1989
397 pages
ISBN:0897913019
DOI:10.1145/67449
Editors:
K. Bice
Texas Instruments
,
C. Lewis
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

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