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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.14

One Way to Select Many

Authors: Jaakko Järvi and Sean Parent

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 56, 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)

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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.

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Jaakko Järvi and Sean Parent. One Way to Select Many. In 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 56, pp. 14:1-14:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{jarvi_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.14,
  author =	{J\"{a}rvi, Jaakko and Parent, Sean},
  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 =	{Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61080},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: User interfaces, Multi-selection, JavaScript}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.2.1.7

One Way to Select Many (Artifact)

Authors: Jaakko Järvi and Sean Parent

Published in: DARTS, Volume 2, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)

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The artifact is built around the MultiselectJS library that implements the multi-selection semantics presented in the companion paper. The purpose of this JavaScript library is to help programmers add multi-selection to Web user interfaces with ease. The artifact includes a demo application showcasing the use of the library, documentation of the library API, and a tutorial on how to use the library. The library clearly separates the reusable aspects of multi-selection from the application specific aspects. The latter are collected into an object referred to as the selection geometry. The complex task of implementing a full-fledged multi-selection feature reduces to a considerably simpler task of implementing a selection geometry. The demo application implements several different selection geometries. It supports the claims of the companion paper that the library considerably lessens the task of implementing multi-selection. Following the guidance of the tutorial, users can build their own multi-selection features.

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Jaakko Järvi and Sean Parent. One Way to Select Many (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 2, Issue 1, pp. 7:1-7:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@Article{jarvi_et_al:DARTS.2.1.7,
  author =	{Järvi, Jaakko and Parent, Sean},
  title =	{{One Way to Select Many (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{7:1--7:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{2},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Järvi, Jaakko and Parent, Sean},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.2.1.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61280},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.2.1.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: User interfaces, Multi-selection, JavaScript}
}

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