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Compund Doucment Architecture

• MINSE -- mediator
• lincks -- versioned compound object, hooks to reasoning systems, multiple views

Imaging model, GUI (windows-buttons-mouse) facilities, persistence (flatten/serialize/pickle, databases), select/cut/copy/paste, embedded presentation.

examples: Mobile GUI on the Web, embed draft.

OLE2

Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding. Big, thick books. Lots of support. @@I need to study it further. It's based on COM, but I don't know whether distributed OLE will be compatible with anything or not. COM (non-distributed) fits in the ILU architecture -- I think there are implementations.

• OCX/OLE Scripting from MS Knowledge base@@

OpenDoc

• CILabs/OpenDoc
• OpenDoc: The Future of Computer Applications!
• @@ftp sites at novell, wordperfect for sdk. Apple Developer University has an "online course"
• @@PenPoint & Taligent info

Fresco

Fresco - A Fresh Approach to User Interface Systems interfaces specified in OMG/IDL. Derives from Linton's work on Interviews.

Structured Storage

More than just serialization, these files are in-place editable.

OpenDoc uses Bento (from apple). OLE uses structured storage. Both offer "file within file". Bento has "generations" and alternatives. Structured storage has transactions -- at least in the interface. They aren't supported in implementations yet. I found a really interesting thread on bento-interest.

• Bento Spec

GUI: Windows, Menus, Mouse

@@sombody's list of GUI stuff...

Rivet

Tk without the Tcl. Also: Tkperl

FormsVBT

The M3 GUI technology, Trestle and FormsVBT, looks portable, but hasn't been ported.

Imaging Models, Graphics Toolkits

Postscript

and Display postscript. Rich model, computationally expensive

MS Win GDI

MS Win API for graphics, printing

Mac Toolbox

Bill Atkinson's QuickDraw

X

blech: X color model, "visuals"