9.4: Chapter Summary
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This chapter gave a short introduction to the Glamour browser framework. Glamour is essentially used as a build tool that enables one to navigate and interact with an arbitrary domain made of plain objects.
GLMTabulatoris a generic browser in which widget are ordered in columns and rows.- Columns are defined by successively sending
column:with a symbol name as argument. Rows are defined withrow:. - Data flows along transmissions set with transmit
from: #source; to: #target. - A transmission may have several source.
- List and text panes are obtained by sending
listandtextto a browser. Content is set withdisplay:and items are formatted withformat:. - Ports define the component interface of a browser. This enables easy reuse and embedding.
- Interaction is defined in term of actions, defined by sending
act:to a widget. - Glamour supports multiple presentations.
- Glamour is not made to build a general purpose graphical user interface.
Note that this chapter is not meant to give an exhaustive overview of Glamour, but merely intended to introduce the reader to the usage and to our intent for our approach. For a more extensive view of Glamour, its concepts and implementation, the Moose book1 has a dedicated chapter.