Complex components abstraction in graphical user interfaces

Abstract

This paper proposes a structure to increase the level of abstraction in building visual user interfaces, establishing an initial set of features and properties that a system for abstract complex components specification must have. Two approaches of AIOs have been studied: Interactors and ADV. The study was focused on the way in which these techniques manage interaction and presentation of interface objects. In the following section an interface complex component definition is proposed. In section 3.1 a basic set of properties and features for interface complex components are showed. In the last section an analogy between classes and objects in object-oriented programming and interface complex components are presented. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.