joeba@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (joe c barello) (05/09/91)
BAY AREA NeXT GROUP meeting announcement.
"Broaden your horizons: Other Interface technologies"
InterViews: a C++ X-based user interace tookit
PenPoint: a mobile pen-based computer OS
May 15th, Wednesday at 7:00 pm
Terman Auditorium, Terman Engineering Center
Santa Teresa Street and Morris Way
Stanford University
o BANG Q&A session
o Mark A. Linton is a principal scientist at Silicon Graphics, Inc.
He is the author of the Unix debugger ``dbx'', the Stanford workstation
benchmarks, and most recently the C++ user interface toolkit, InterViews.
His current research interests are in programming environments,
user interfaces, operating systems, and workstation architectures.
The InterViews user interface toolkit provides small, simple components
called "glyphs" that programmers can use in large numbers to build
a user interface. Because the surrounding context is passed to
their operations, glyphs can be shared and often compute information
instead of storing it. By providing a flexible set of basic classes,
InterViews can accommodate both glyphs and traditional toolkit objects
within a single framework. This talk will focus on the InterViews toolkit
basics, with a brief diversion on the InterViews interface builder
that is constructed using a part of the toolkit that directly supports
drawing editors.
o Tony Hoeber is the User Interface Coordinator for Go Corporation, Inc.
His is the architect of the Penpoint User Interface and has been working
with GO for two years. He wrote the NUI, the notebook user interface
guidelines and is currently looking at cultural differences in society
to enhance PenPoints usablity in the world market. Prior to that
he worked on the SunView and OpenLook environments for SUN.
Penpoint is the general purpose operating system designed for mobile
pen-based computers. The five major points of Penpoint include:
notebook user interface, embedded document architecture,
connectivity, compact and scalable implementation, and modern OS
for the 90s. The notebook user interface provides the user with a pen
and paper model verses a "C" prompt. The embedded document
architecture allows any application to be embedded live within any
other application. It also features built in hyper-linking capabilities.
Penpoint supports multiple installed networks allowing a user to move
from a LAN environment to a wireless network and back into a LAN
network simply by plugging and unplugging cables or walking into the
networks range. The object oriented system design allows applications
to share code resulting in smaller applications. This translates into
flexible configurations, lower memory requirements, longer battery life
and more economical hardware. It is a 32 bit flat memory model object
oriented system with pre-emptive multitasking. A single imaging model,
"imagePoint", for screen display and printing provides scaling, rotation,
sampled image rendering and outline fonts. Penpoint is designed for
portability to other processors. PenPoint is simple, connectable, compact
and flexible. It is designed for new users and new uses.
DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING FROM PALO ALTO FREEWAYS:
>From I-280:
East on Page Mill road Exit (1.3 miles)
Left on Junipero Serra Blvd (1.9 miles)
Right on Campus Drive West (0.3 miles)
Right on Santa Teresa Street (0.4 miles)
Park in lot opposite Morris Way
>From I-101:
West on University Avenue exit (2.5 miles)
(Through Palo Alto into university campus)
Right on Campus Drive West (1.9 miles)
Left on Santa Teresa Street (0.4 miles)
Park in lot opposite Morris Way