An Overview of the Architecture for WE 1.0

Abstract

This document discusses WE, a graphics-based Writing Environment. It provides tools to support the entire writing process, from brainstorming to document revision. Users visually transform their ideas from a network to a hierarchy defining document structure. The prototype system is written in Smalltalk-80, an object-oriented interpreted language. This document presents the architecture of the WE version 1.0 prototype system. Sections cover the high-level component layout, the class hierarchy, the flow of control, the support framework, and the database support. Readers should be familiar with object-oriented programming in general and Smalltalk in particular to understand the note completely.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA199467

Entities

People

  • Gordon J. Ferguson
  • Jay D. Bolter
  • John B. Smith
  • Paulette E. Bush
  • Stephen F. Weiss

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Graphics
  • Linguistics
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Object-Oriented Programming Language
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procedural Programming
  • Programming Languages
  • Social Sciences
  • Software Development
  • Software Prototyping
  • Word Processors

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.