Fresco : Further Reading

Helpful References

The following papers are written around the frameworks ET++/MET++ and InterViews/Fresco. We found very valuable discussions about GUI design and application frameworks in general

Title	Author(s)	download
InterViews/Fresco
Composing User Interfaces with InterViews	Mark Linton John Vlissides Paul Calder	pdf
Glyphs: Flyweight Objects for User Interfaces	Paul Calder Mark Linton	pdf
Interviews Tutorial Introduction Guide for beginners		pdf
Applying Object Oriented Design to Structured Graphics	John Vlissides Mark Linton	pdf
The Object-Oriented Implementation of a Document Editor	Paul Calder Mark Linton	ps.gz
InterViews: a C++ Graphical Interface Toolkit	Mark Linton Paul Calder John Vlissides	pdf
Implementing Resolution Independence on top of the X Window System	Mark Linton	ps.gz
Redisplay in Fresco	Mark Linton Steven Tang Steven Churchill	pdf
Blending Structured Graphics and Layout	Steven Tang Mark Linton	pdf
Dish: A Dynamic Invocation Shell for Fresco	Douglas Pan Mark Linton	pdf
Unidraw: a Framework for Building Domain Specific Graphical Editors	John Vlissides Mark A. Linton	ps.gz
An Object-Oriented Architecture for Constraint-Based Graphical Editing	Richard Helm Tien Huynh Kim Marriott John Vlissides	ps.gz
Tooled Composite	John Vlissides	pdf
VISITOR in Frameworks	John Vlissides	pdf
OpenDoc
OMG RFP Submission: Compound Presentation and Compound Interchange Facilities	Apple Computer, Incorporated; Component Integration Laboratories, Incorporated; International Business Machines Corporation; Novell, Incorporated	pdf
ET++/MET++
Direct Manipulation of Temporal Structures in a Multimedia Application Framework	Philipp Ackermann	ps.gz
Design and Implementation of an Object-oriented Media Composition Framework	Philipp Ackermann	ps.gz
MET++ Architecture (diagram)		ps.gz
Combining 2D User Interface Components and Interactive 3D Graphics in ET++	Philipp Ackermann Dominik Eichelberg	ps.gz
Prototypes for Audio and Video Processing in a Scientific Visualization Environment based on the MET++ Multimedia Application Framework	Philipp Ackermann Urs Meyer	ps.gz
ET++ - a Portable, Homogeneous Class Library and Application Framework	Andre Weinand Erich Gamma	et++Part1.ps.gz et++Part2.ps.gz
Visual Programming in an Object-Oriented Framework		ps.gz
Miscellaneous
The Design and Implementation of Amulet's ORE System		pdf
Pacers: Time Elastic Objects	Steven Tang Mark Linton	ps.gz
A Distributed Adaptive Windowing System	Duncan Grisby	ps.gz
Font Selection and Font Composition for Unicode	Martin J. Dürst Marc-Antoine Parent	ps.gz

Design Pattern Documentation

You'll often hear particular design patterns being discussed on the mailing list. Design patterns are just a vocabulary for particular recurring themes in software systems, but having the vocabulary is extremely useful. Here's documentation to help figure out what the words mean

UBILab's Design Pattern Catalog		pdf
Comparison of composite patterns		pdf

There's number of books we're recommending people pick up (or at least try and read over someone's shoulder at a conference) if they want to be hacking Fresco. Don't go spending yourself into a hole or anything—these are just books we happen to have liked so far:

Title	Author(s)
Advanced CORBA programming with C++	Michi Henning Steve Vinoski
Design Patterns: Elements of Reuseable Object-Oriented Software	Erich Gamma Helm Ralph Johnson John Vlissides
The C++ Programming Language 3rd ed.	Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer Graphics in C: Principles And Practices	D. Foley A. van Dam S.K. Feiner J.F. Hughes
The XML Companion	Neil Bradley
OpenGL Programming Guide 2nd ed.	Woo Neider Davis
Effective C++	Meyers
Pattern Hatching	John Vlissides

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