A tour of suite user interface software
Prasun Dewan · 1990
Suite offers several advanced interactive features missing from contemporary interactive systems including a generic direetmanipulation user interface; a flexible input model offering benefits of both incremental and delayed feedback; customizable system-provided dialogue managers which relieve applications from managing their user interfaces; loose physical coupling between an application and its dialogue manager, that is, execution of these components in different address spaces, residing possibly on different hosts; interactive specification of customizable properities of user interfaces; and IS-A and IS-PART-OF inheritance to reduce the effort required to specify these properities.It complements recent work done in programming languages, databases, operating systems, and distributed systems.In this paper, we take the reader on a tour of the Suite user interface software, highlighting its distinguishing features.