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Amulet - User Interface Development Environment

More than just another free "virtual toolkit," Amulet includes many features specifically designed to make the creation of highly-interactive, graphical, direct manipulation user interfaces significantly easier. Based on a proven earlier system, called Garnet, that was in wide use in the Lisp community, Amulet adds a number of important innovations and refinements.

Important features of Amulet include:

• a dynamic, prototype-instance object system that makes prototyping easier
• automatic constraint solving integrated with the object system
• a "structured-graphics" model (also called a "display list") that handles automatic refresh of objects when the change
• a high-level input model that makes it easy to add behaviors to objects and also supports undo and help for operations
• a full set of flexible widgets implemented using the Amulet intrinsics, so you can easily experiment with your own widgets; and high-level interactive debugging tools. Widgets include:buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, menus, menu bars (pull-down menus), scroll bars, scrolling windows, and text input fields.

Operating Systems

• PC 32-bit Windows
• X Windows
• Mac

Compilers

• Visual C++
• GCC
• MetroWerks CodeWarrior
• Object Center

Added : 1996-02-29 Amended: 1996-02-29 Licensing : Public Domain

Amulet - User Interface Development Environment
• FTP from ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/usr0/anon/project/amulet/amulet/README
• Brad A. Myers
• WWW http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet
• Postal address:Brad A. Myers, Human Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891