Constructing a Language-Based Editor with Object-Oriented Techniques

• Main Authors: Chung Hua Hu, 胡仲華
• Other Authors: Feng Jian Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 1994
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97658844168021170862

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 82 === This thesis presents a template-based MVC (TMVC for short) architecture, an extension of MVC, for constructing a language- based editor. A TMVC, encapsulating an MVC triad as its components, is capable of handling input events, displaying the layout, and processing language-dependent information. A program in the ediotr is constructed as a tree, called the program tree, and each node in the tree corresponds to a TMVC. Thus, a program is modeled by multiple TMVCs with hierarchical structures. Object-oriented techniques are also used to construct incremental tools for syntactic and semantic analyses. In our language-based editor, incremental semantic evaluation is performed via message passing between TMVCs in a program tree. For better reusability, the class hierarchy of a given language is constructed based on the functionality of the language constructs. Moreover, procedures for integrating a new incremental tool into the existing programming environment are also discussed.