THESEUS++ user's handbook System documentation

THESEUS++ is a user interface toolkit especially designed to ease development of application specific interaction with 2D graphics. From the beginning of the THESEUS++ approach has been object-oriented. It is written in C++ on top of OSF/Motif. THESEUS++ enforces the separation between the application and the user interface in a flexible way. The parts of the dialogue which do not require application specific knowledge can be described on a high level of abstraction, while semantic feedback on low level is possible for those dialogue cycles that need application knowledge. Integration, extensibility, as well as flexibility were already described in the specification phase of THESEUS++ as the most important design objectives. These goals were evaluated several times during the development. The THESEUS++ development is part of the STONE project. It is sponsered and supported by the German Ministery of Research and Technology (BMFT) under grant no. 01IS104A. The name STONE stands for 'Structured and Open Environment'. The goal of the STONE project was to design, implement and distribute a software engineering environment for research and teaching purposes. STONE is a joint effort of nine academic partners in Germany. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F93B1352 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Forschung und Technologie (BMFT), Bonn (Germany)DEGerman