aronson@sunbird.steinmetz (marc aronson) (05/12/87)
1. Has anybody implemented scroll bars as a sun NeWS utility? I have talked to the SUN NeWS people, and they do not have scroll bars available at this time. 2. Has anyone integrated an editor with NeWS windows that will operate something like "cmdtool". It's not important that the user interface be the same. I just need a window that I can put up and the user can do some simple editing in. 3. Has anybody built a tool for creating NeWS display windows. I'm looking for something that allows me to compose a display window with button/slider/text/cycle items, and then automatically generate some of the code. Thanks, Marc
aronson@sunbird.steinmetz (marc aronson) (05/14/87)
In article <5971@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> aronson@sunbird.UUCP () writes: Note: Oops, I forget my return path when I posted this the first time. My return address is: aronson@ge-crd.arpa -- steinmetz!sungod!aronson. Tried to cancel it, but it may have gotten out anyway...Here it is again, in any case. > >1. Has anybody implemented scroll bars as a sun NeWS utility? >I have talked to the SUN NeWS people, and they do not have scroll bars >available at this time. > >2. Has anyone integrated an editor with NeWS windows that will operate >something like "cmdtool". It's not important that the user interface >be the same. I just need a window that I can put up and the user can >do some simple editing in. > >3. Has anybody built a tool for creating NeWS display windows. I'm looking >for something that allows me to compose a display window with >button/slider/text/cycle items, and then automatically generate some >of the code. Send mail to me, and I'll summarize responses. Marc Aronson aronson@ge-crd.arpa -- steinmetz!sungod!aronson
gilbert@aimmi.UUCP (05/23/87)
In article <5984@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> aronson@sunbird.UUCP (marc aronson) writes: > >1. Has anybody implemented scroll bars as a sun NeWS utility? Has anybody shown that they are sensible form of panning technique? I'm glad Sun haven't gone for them straight off, as it may encourage toolkit implementors to look at alternative forms of panning before settling myopically for scroll bars. Common alternatives are dragging a point in the picture to the clipping window edge (as in MacPaint - love it) or moving the cursor just over the edge of the clipping window (works on some Mac Applications). There is a comprehensive survey of interaction techniques in: %A J.D. Foley %A V.L. Wallace %A P. Chan %T The human factors of computer graphics interaction techniques %J IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications %V 4(11) %P 13-48 %D 1984 Smart CAD/CAM implementors may also have done something that the GWU crowd don't know about, so you could extend your repetoire by having a play at the next CAD/CAM exhibition near you. Oh - and be sure to see a psychologist before you hard-code anything :-) If you don't get on, at least get some ideas from: %A W. Buxton %T There's More to Interaction Than Meets the Eye: Some Issues in Manual Input %B User Centred System Design %E D.A. Norman %E S. Draper %I Laurence Erlbaum %P 319-337 %D 1986 Bill Buxton has some nice ideas about gesture input which are more digestible than raw Human Factors papers (unless you're a Human Factors specialist, in which case they digest easily but make you wish you'd eaten somewhere a bit more adventurous and cosmopolitan :-)) -- Gilbert Cockton, Scottish HCI Centre, Ben Line Building, Edinburgh, EH1 1TN JANET: gilbert@uk.ac.hw.aimmi ARPA: gilbert%aimmi.hw.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ..!{backbone}!aimmi.hw.ac.uk!gilbert