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Inertia UI
Inertia is the name I've given to my long term research and
prototyping projects based on user interfaces. Implementations
have been written in C++, Io, and now Dylan. I've also designed
a few mockups along the way.
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Ruby
Inertia UI
Download ruby-inertia-0.6.zip |
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Ruby Inertia
is a live user interface environment similar to Squeak
and Self, in that
there is no distinction between edit and runtime program modes.
Prototypes have been written in C++, Io, Dylan, and now Ruby.
It's a research project, so new ideas are being prototyped and
explored. But it also has the goal of being very usable. Simplicity
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Dylan
Inertia UI |
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Dylan Inertia
is a vector UI library written in Dylan. It's a concept I've
been pursuing, in other incarnations, for the past few years.
Development started in October 2005, so this is a very early
release. The main goals are simplicity and reuse, and the ability
to edit the layout of a running program. The library is available
in libraries/inertia in the gwydion.org svn source tree. |
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Inertia
Io |
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I've written
a few versions of a UI in Io, that last of which used a magic
lense to edit widgets in place in a running program. All windows
are textured, and I started toying with Quartz Extreme type
effects like animating the closing of windows. An earlier incarnation
of Inertia Io allowed arbritrary widgets in the view hierarchy.
Below, you can see a 3D rotatable teapot in a menu. |
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The Context User Interface |
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An old, incomplete
article I started to write a few years ago about putting the
focus back on the user. It has some history about other user
interfaces such as Sun's Self
and Squeak. |
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