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- From: eivind@idt.unit.no (Eivind Throndsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Prototyping tools, anyone? (Summary)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.161219.22438@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:12:19 GMT
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
- Lines: 80
- Originator: eivind@boek
-
- I've received three replies to my query for prototyping tools. Thank you
- to Debra Wagner, James Logan and Christopher White.
-
- Here are the answers I got. Hope others will find them helpful, too.
-
- Yours,
- Eivind Throndsen.
-
- ============================================================
- From deb@c3ot.saic.com (Debra Wagner) Fri Dec 18 16:48:16 1992
-
- There is an application development/prototyping tool called the
- Visual Programming Environment (VPE) developed by a company
- called Market Focus Technologies, now owned by SAIC (Science
- Applications International). I worked for Market Focus for 3.5
- years and now work for SAIC so I am extremely familiar with the
- product. It consists of an object oriented window (GUI) design tool
- encompassing raster images, vector drawings, and most all of the
- widgets available under either Motif and OpenLook. It runs on most
- all Unix platforms and with not only Motif and OpenLook, but also
- standard X.
-
- VPE also contains a fourth generation rule based language that even
- non programmers can use. That's how easy it is. I have not found
- anything that it can't do. Best of all, the same interface designed with
- VPEscreens is used in the final full blown application that has the
- rule code behind it. VPE also interfaces with all the major RDBMS's and
- with a little additional coding, any standard SQL database.
-
- I'm not a sales person for Market Focus, just a believer in how easy it
- makes my job as a Human Factors/GUI designer.
-
- If you would like additional information, e-mail me back and I can give
- you my #.
-
- Hope this is helpful.
-
- - Deborah Wagner
- SAIC
-
- ============================================================
- From: james@sunny.mitre.org (James Logan)
-
- A tool that allows you to build a user interface that is portable to
- multiple platforms is Aspect by Open Inc. They have built a single
- user interface API for the MS-Windows, Macintosh, Unix (HP, SUN, DEC,
- IBM, SCO etc.) and character based platforms. They provide a builder
- tool to prototype the user interface, then you add in your application
- specific code.
-
- There are other multiplatform systems that work similar to Aspect.
- for example XVT, but these other packages are more expensive. I am
- not sure but I don't think that these other products provide the
- builder tool. Also, Open's product has extended the features of some
- of the platforms, so as to become a superset of the common features.
-
- ============================================================
- From: Human-Factors@gtech.com (Christopher White)
-
- JAM from JYACC is excellent. It's portable accross a number of platforms,
- has it's own script language, supports c-hooks and a variety of build
- options. You can quickly prototype, but it also a full application
- development system (so you don't have to re-do you're work). It is
- specifically aimed at SQL environments, but it can be used to do
- almost anything. It supports Motif on down to block terminals *without re-
- writing your code*.
-
- The only drawback is that it is a memory hog on the PC unless you are using
- memory extenders (or working in MS Windows). Highly reccommended.
-
-
- Topher
- --
- Christopher A. White | "Perfection is not optional."
- caw@gtech.com |
- GTech Corporation, West Greenwich, RI | from: Rules for sociopathic
- The opinions expressed are mine alone | obsessive-compulsives
-
- --
- Eivind Throndsen (eivind@idt.unit.no)
-