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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.14
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61080
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6108/
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Järvi, Jaakko ; Parent, Sean

One Way to Select Many

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Abstract

Selecting items from a collection is one of the most common tasks
users perform with graphical user interfaces. Practically every
application supports this task with a selection feature different
from that of any other application. Defects are common,
especially in manipulating selections of non-adjacent elements,
and flexible selection features are often missing when they would
clearly be useful. As a consequence, user effort is wasted. The
loss of productivity is experienced in small doses, but all
computer users are impacted. The undesirable state of support
for multi-element selection prevails because the same selection
features are redesigned and reimplemented repeatedly. This
article seeks to establish common abstractions for
multi-selection. It gives generic but precise meanings to
selection operations and makes multi-selection reusable; a
JavaScript implementation is described. Application vendors
benefit because of reduced development effort. Users benefit
because correct and consistent multi-selection becomes available
in more contexts.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{jrvi_et_al:LIPIcs:2016:6108,
  author =	{Jaakko J{\"a}rvi and Sean Parent},
  title =	{{One Way to Select Many}},
  booktitle =	{30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:26},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-014-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{56},
  editor =	{Shriram Krishnamurthi and Benjamin S. Lerner},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6108},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61080},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: User interfaces, Multi-selection, JavaScript}
}

Keywords: User interfaces, Multi-selection, JavaScript
Collection: 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 18.07.2016

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