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Forth, MetaWINDOW, and GUI design

Forth, MetaWINDOW, and GUI design Forth, MetaWINDOW, and GUI Design PD. Lopez, EleusinianEnterprises, 7997 Phaeton Drive, Oakland CA 946054212, (510) 562-2055 ABSTRACT: ELUS by Eleusinian Enterprises is discussed as an example of a mixed language Forth implementation which includes its own GUI toolkit, the Interactive Screen Designer. The linked Meta WINDOW graphics library (Metagraphics Software Corporation), makes the design and implementation of graphics application user interfaces possible, intuitive, and efficient. The discussed utilities of the Interactive Screen Designer include the design of standard window and control screen objects, paint facilities for creating customdesigned application windows, and a Linker utility which allows any predefined screen region to be linked to executable code. A music application, ELUS:TD, and an ELUS music utility, SEIMATRIX, are demonstrated as examples of virtual device panels and control interfaces created with the Interactive Screen Designer. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this document is to describe the Interactive Screen Designer, a Graphics User Interface toolkit which is included as a standard feature of ELUS, a Forth based Music Applications Development Environment. Eleusinian Enterprises is involved in the development of music software targeted at the commercial and experimental markets. Forth was chosen for the development environment because of its many exceptional and superior http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGFORTH Newsletter Association for Computing Machinery

Forth, MetaWINDOW, and GUI design

ACM SIGFORTH Newsletter , Volume 4 (4) – Dec 1, 1994

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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 1994 by ACM Inc.
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1047-4544
DOI
10.1145/190670.190672
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Forth, MetaWINDOW, and GUI Design PD. Lopez, EleusinianEnterprises, 7997 Phaeton Drive, Oakland CA 946054212, (510) 562-2055 ABSTRACT: ELUS by Eleusinian Enterprises is discussed as an example of a mixed language Forth implementation which includes its own GUI toolkit, the Interactive Screen Designer. The linked Meta WINDOW graphics library (Metagraphics Software Corporation), makes the design and implementation of graphics application user interfaces possible, intuitive, and efficient. The discussed utilities of the Interactive Screen Designer include the design of standard window and control screen objects, paint facilities for creating customdesigned application windows, and a Linker utility which allows any predefined screen region to be linked to executable code. A music application, ELUS:TD, and an ELUS music utility, SEIMATRIX, are demonstrated as examples of virtual device panels and control interfaces created with the Interactive Screen Designer. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this document is to describe the Interactive Screen Designer, a Graphics User Interface toolkit which is included as a standard feature of ELUS, a Forth based Music Applications Development Environment. Eleusinian Enterprises is involved in the development of music software targeted at the commercial and experimental markets. Forth was chosen for the development environment because of its many exceptional and superior

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ACM SIGFORTH NewsletterAssociation for Computing Machinery

Published: Dec 1, 1994

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