Last modified on March 21, 1995

Visual Environment Con't

Visualization of System Design:

Supports:

• manipulation of static and dynamic diagrams of computer systems
• manipulation of program and documentation text
• Represented internally as an abstract syntax tree
• creation and traversal of multidimensional information space

Visual Languages:

For processing visual information

• Pictorial information is represented by both logical and physical features
• Using SQL we can manipulate information

For Supporting Visual Interaction

• These languages are designed to support visual representation or visual interaction, but the languages themselves are textual

For actually programming with visual expressions

• known as "Visual Programming Languages"