Serpent: Dialogue Editor User's Guide. System for User Interface Development. Version 1

Abstract

This guide introduces the Serpent dialogue editor, which is used to communicate the dialogue between the end user and the functional, or application, portion of a system. This dialogue specifies both the presentation of application information and end-user interactions. Put differently, the dialogue editor provides an environment in which to develop and maintain Slang dialogue specifications. Most of what is built in the editor translates directly into Slang, the Serpent dialogue specification language. That is, the Slang code generated from the dialogue editor can be compiled and run to produce the user interface for an application. Although the dialogue editor hides much slang syntax, users of the editor should understand the conceptual model of Slang, as well as the syntax of code snippets and expressions that are used to define much of the interactive behavior.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA242331

Entities

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Color Displays
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directories
  • Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Prototypes
  • Push Buttons
  • Reproduction (Copying)
  • Software Development
  • Software Prototyping
  • Specifications
  • Technical Information Centers
  • User Interface
  • User Interface Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Database Systems and Applications