Usually the possibilities for end users to customize GUIs to their requirements are limited. We present a GUI specification and customization system, the Auckland Interface Model (AIM), that represents GUIs as documents that can be loaded, saved and changed by the end user during runtime. GUI layout and GUI content can be customized independently, and GUIs can be decomposed using transclusion. ...

Creating GUI programs is hard even for prototyping purposes. Using the model-view paradigm makes it somewhat simpler since the model-view paradigm dictates that the model contains no GUI programming, as this is done by the views. Still, a lot of GUI programming is needed to implement the views. We present a new method for constructing GUI applications that fits well in the model-view paradigm. ...

G raphical user interfaces have become a nearly ubiquitous means of interacting with software systems. The GUI responds to user events, such as mouse movements or menu selections , providing a front end to the underlying application code. The GUI interacts with the underlying code through messages or method calls. GUIs make software easy to use, and developers are dedicating a larger portion of...