UIST course User Interface Software Tools Course - Hebrew University of Jerusalem


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Lectures

Software Technology track

Topics Slides Related Links and Readings
1. UI software architecture
2. Window systems Introduction to the X Window System, Oliver Jones, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989, www.x.org, Linux window managers
3. Widget Layout
4. Input Models (event-driven pgm)

5. UI builders

vtcl, specTcl
6. State Machines A Tcl package
7. Animation tooltips, a progress bar, Animation in Tcl, Timers in Java
8. 2D graphics 2D graphics in Java
9. Constraints Converting an Existing User Interface to Use Constraints
10. multi-user applications  
11. UI design   Nielsen's heuristics

Tcl/Tk track

In addition to the slides, it is strongly recommended to use these Tcl and Tk short summaries.
 
Tcl/Tk Track
 Slides Tcl/Tk Examples from Welch's book
introduction: Tcl/Tk chapter 1
Tcl: syntax, arrays, expressions, 
lists, strings, regexps, control 
structures, procedures, errors, 
file handling, network i/o, runtime info, debugging tcl/tk.		 chap. 1, 2, 5 (lists)
Control struct: chap. 6: foreach(6-11)
Arrays :chapt. 8
upvar: chap 7-5, 6
Control struct: chap. 6: foreach(6-11)
file handling: chap. 9 (error handling: 9-5)
procedures:chap. 7
Widgets:
hierarchy, commands, attributes, 
Geometry management: 
the placer, packer, the grid
Event based programming: 
bindings, variables/callbacks, misc. commands		 runtime info:chap. 13
widget attributes: chap. 34
packer: chap. 20
grid: chap. 21,
bindings: chap. 23,
focus, grab, dialogs: chap. 33
listboxes: chap. 29
More widgets: 
listboxes, images, cursors, tags
2D graphics  interactive programming: 
tags, the canvas widget: drawing basic shapes, 
bindings on tags		 images:  35- 3, 4,5
cursors:  35-6 (full list in cursorfont.h)
chap  30-2
Grid and Text:  21- 2, 10
Canvas: Chap. 31: 1
Canvas: Chap. 31: 1,2,5,6, 9,10,11
Canvas mouse drawing: 31-8, 11
Menus: 24-6, 24-7
Canvas selection 32-4, 5
Multi process and asyncronous commands: 
The send, after and update command, animation

tooltips (balloons),
Animation (update): 20-16
the update command
ticker.tcl and timer.tcl

Tcl and C C: random example with handler
shared variables: see manpage for Tcl_LinkVar

Exercises

Please read carefully submission instructions and grading policy.

1. exercise 1: due on october 21st - 10%.
2. exercise 2: due on November 3rd. - 10%
3. exercise 3: due on November 24th. - 15%
4. exercise 4: due on December 8th. -10%
5. exercise 5: due on December 30th - 30%
6. exercise 6: optional, due on January 19th - 25%