Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!rjf From: rjf@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (R.J.Faichney) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Anyone working on UIMS? Message-ID: <4704@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 19 Mar 88 14:10:58 GMT References: <4627@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> Reply-To: rjf@ukc.ac.uk (Robin Faichney) Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 105 Keywords: user-interface UIMS toolkit In article <4627@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> rjf@ukc.ac.uk (I) wrote: > >[ asking if anyone was working on UIMS on top of X, and promising to >summarise replies ] There were just a few, so here they are in full: --------- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 88 20:17:03 EST From: Len Bass I know of two UIMSs using X. One is a commercial product: Open Dialogue available from Apollo. I haven't tracked its progress but it was advertised at last year's SIGGRAPH and should be available. The second UIMS is the one we are developing (Serpent). This one will be available for beta testing in Aug of this year. It features a production model, multi-threading and support of user views. Dialogues are specified using a special interactive editor. The interface between the application program and the dialogue manager uses a data base model and should be easily accessible to application programmers (we plan to test this experimentally at some point). We are going to distribute our code freely but Serpent is built on top of OPS83 and so, in order to run Serpent, one must have an OPS83 license. There is a hard copy technical report giving an overview of Serpent available if you are interested and send me a mail address. Len Bass -------- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 88 15:00:18 est From: David Haynes I assume your UIMS is a User Interface Management System and, as such, I am the project leader of a team working on a UIMS for library applications in X. I have not had any dealings with any of the people mentioned above (although I see Charles and I share last names...) Our major objectives: 1) to divorce the presentational aspects of the system from the procedural aspects 2) to present a consistant user paradym to allow for intuitive extensions to the known system 3) to support language independance at as high a level as is possible 4) to somehow make all this work.... -david- -------- From: xug <@bu-it.bu.edu:xug@ics.uucp> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 88 16:57:19 EST the X users group is also trying to coordinate a UI-editor. if you get any info could you copy it to me and I will do the same thanks -peter winston -------- From: thomas@cme-durer.ARPA (Bruce Thomas) Date: 16 Mar 88 20:03:15 GMT In response to where the UIMS are. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, is developing a UIMS called Transportable Applications Executive (TAE) Plus. TAE Plus is an X-windows based interactive prototyping and implementation environment. TAE supports menus, radio buttons, scrollable text regions, and much more. TAE Plus is in a beta-test stage at the moment. The full system should be out by the beginning of the summer '88. For more information contact the TAE Support Office: Goddard Space Flight Center TAE Support Office Code 521 Attn: Arleen Yeager Greenbelt, MD 20771 (301) 286-6034 -------- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 12:07:29 MEZ From: Andreas Heimlich I just read your "Anyone working on UIMS?" mail in the MIT xpert news. So here is some "overseas" reply: UniWare is a german software firm, located in West Berlin. In the past two years we have been building a UIMS called "UniScreen" which works with ASCII-Terminals. After the X Conference in January we decided to re-design the UniScreen product to support both ASCII and X Environments using the the X toolkit. Work is going on and we are looking forward to have a prototype version end of this year. I'm very interested to hear from anyone working on related stuff in the US. Is there a project at Berkeley in this area? Andreas Heimlich UniWare Computer GmbH Kantstrasse 152 1000 Berlin 12 Alternative e-mail address: ..!unido!tub!uwbln!ah