Integrating PHIGS and User Interface Systems
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1991
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Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association
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The past five years has seen an explosion of rich and effective user interface management systems and toolkits and an increase in the expectations regarding application portability. Nearly a decade old, the PHIGS input model is inadequate in the face of this variety."Fixing PHIGS" input would be a long and arduous task. Instead, PHIGS should be adapted to cooperate, not compete, with user interface systems. This can be done in two ways. An application can use both PHIGS input and input from a user interface system to accomplish its goals. Alternatively, an application can use input only from a user interface system, but in this case it needs utilities in PHIGS to gain access to information only PHIGS can supply. Specifically the utilities are needed for application-initiated picking and for coordinate mapping.
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@article{10.1111:1467-8659.1010027,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Integrating PHIGS and User Interface Systems}},
author = {Hardenbergh, Jan and Michener, James},
year = {1991},
publisher = {Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/1467-8659.1010027}
}