twh@mb2c.UUCP (Darth Hitchcock) (11/30/83)
Are there any books or papers on HOW TO WRITE "Lisa" type (windows&icon&mouse) software ? Thanks in advance, Timothy Hitchcock Michigan Bell (313) 424-1027 sb1!mb2c!twh
grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP (12/03/83)
#R:mb2c:-19800:uiuccsb:19000003:000:542 uiuccsb!grunwald Dec 2 13:36:00 1983 There was a paper in a recent ACM Transactions on Computer Graphics describing the algorithms and data structures needed to implement multiple- window bit-mapped displays in an efficent manner. It only made provisions for square windows. This seems reasonable, since rounded corner windows (as on the Lisa) seem to increase the complexity without an increase in utility. Other good books would be the recent batch about the implementation of SmallTalk (ask in net.lang.st80). You might also want to ask about this in net.graphics.
mark@umcp-cs.UUCP (12/06/83)
Catch the December BYTE--all about designing good user interfaces,
focusing mainly on window systems.
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