Progress Report for the week of October 2, 1997
Accomplishments:
This week we finished up the GUI Style Guide and got a start on the actual design of the program. We each read a couple papers as well. All of them are not yet on the resources page, but will be shortly. For the design, we have decided to use a program called Rational Rose. We found a demo of the program on the internet. It aids in the design of programs by drawing many sorts of diagrams, allowing you do determine classes, methods, variables, and method parameters. It can also tell you if there are certain problems with the design. It is a very useful tool and has many reporting functions. A diagram of what we have so far should be located here. We are also considering designing the classes as JavaBeans. To be honest, we are not 100% sure what distinguishes a JavaBean, but from our understanding, a JavaBean can be used as a component. Each class is self contained and has functions that get and set every variable contained within it. This allows for better component reuse.
Questions:
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What are you expecting for a write-up? Are you expecting a write-up about
visualization and visualization tools or using Java to create visualization
tools?
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We determined a way that we could implement pop-up menus in the GUI. Do you think it would be a good idea to use them? If so, what functionality would be good to put in a pop-up menu?
To do List:
- Continue with the class design.
- Research more articles.
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