A Functional Programming Technique for Forms in Graphical User Interfaces

• Published in: Implementation and Application of Functional Languages pp. 35 - 51
• Main Authors: Evers, Sander, Achten, Peter, Kuper, Jan
• Format: Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Atomic Form; Combinator Library; Computer science; control theory; systems; Exact sciences and technology; Functional Language; Graphical User Interface; Programming languages; Software; Subject Type; Functional language; Programming language; Functional programming; User interface; Graphical interface

This paper presents FunctionalForms, a combinator library for constructing fully functioning forms in a concise and flexible way. A form is a part of a graphical user interface (GUI) restricted to displaying a value and allowing the user to modify it. The library is built on top of the medium-level...