Implementing Semantic Feedback in a Diagram Editor

Summary, in English

In editors for visual languages it is often useful to provide interactive feedback that depends on the static semantics of the edited program. In this paper we demonstrate how such feedback can be implemented using reference attribute grammars. Because the implementation is declarative, it is easy to modularize compiler and editor computations, reusing the compiler's program model in the editor. Furthermore, the declarative approach makes it easy to keep the program model and view consistent during editing. The approach is illustrated using a function block diagram language, with visual feedback on, for example, type checking and cyclic data flow.

• Författare: Niklas Fors; Görel Hedin
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för datavetenskap; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration; Programvaruteknik
• Publiceringsår: 2013
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 42-50
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Graphical Modeling Language Development
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2489820.2489827
• Dokumenttyp: Konferensbidrag
• Förlag: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Ämne: Computer Science
• Conference name: Graphical Modeling Language Development (GMLD), 2013
• Conference date: 2013-07-02
• Conference place: Montpellier, France
• Status: Published
• Projekt: ELLIIT LU P05: Scalable Language Tools for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Forskningsgrupp: LUCAS
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISBN: 978-1-4503-2044-3