SwingStates: Adding state machines to Java and the Swing toolkit

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1149-1182

  Appert, C ^a,b,c   Beaudouin Lafon, M ^a,b  

^a UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Finite state machines; Graphical user interfaces; Human computer interaction; Java Swing; User interface toolkits

Indexed keywords

FINITE AUTOMATA; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACE STATES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

ARBITRARY INPUTS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; JAVA SWING; NOVEL INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE SENSITIVE; USER INTERFACE TOOLKIT;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 52649090722     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.867     Document Type: Article

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