Declarative Programming of User Interfaces

This paper proposes a declarative description of user interfaces that s from low-level implementation details. In particular, the user interfaces specified in our framework are executable as graphical user interfaces for desktop applications as well as web user interfaces via standard web browsers. Thus, our approach combines the advantages of existing user interface technologies in a flexible way without demands on the programmer's side. We sketch an implementation of this concept in the declarative multi-paradigm programming language Curry and show how the integrated functional and logic features of Curry are exploited to enable a high-level implementation of this concept. 1 Motivation The implementation of a good user interface for application programs is a necessary but often non-trivial and tedious task. In order to support programmers in the implementation of user interfaces, one can find specific libraries that reflect different approaches to the construction of user interf...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: PADL
• Authors: Christof Kluß, Michael Hanus
• Keywords: Graphical User Interfaces, PADL 2009, Programming Languages, Textual User Interfaces, User Interfaces