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Implementing Semantic Feedback in a Diagram Editor

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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.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

42-50

Publication/Series

Graphical Modeling Language Development

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Topic

  • Computer Science

Conference name

Graphical Modeling Language Development (GMLD), 2013

Conference date

2013-07-02

Conference place

Montpellier, France

Status

Published

Project

  • ELLIIT LU P05: Scalable Language Tools for Cyber-Physical Systems

Research group

  • LUCAS

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-4503-2044-3