Programmatic and direct manipulation, together at last

@inproceedings{Chugh2016ProgrammaticAD,
  title={Programmatic and direct manipulation, together at last},
  author={Ravi Chugh and Brian Hempel and Mitchell Spradlin and Jacob Albers},
  booktitle={PLDI},
  year={2016}
}

• Ravi Chugh, Brian Hempel, +1 author Jacob Albers
• Published 2016 in PLDI
• DOI:10.1145/2908080.2908103

Direct manipulation interfaces and programmatic systems have distinct and complementary strengths. The former provide intuitive, immediate visual feedback and enable rapid prototyping, whereas the latter enable complex, reusable abstractions. Unfortunately, existing systems typically force users into just one of these two interaction modes. We present a system called Sketch-n-Sketch that integrates programmatic and direct manipulation for the particular domain of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG… CONTINUE READING

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