Introduction

The Application Object Mode provides a structural representation of the GUI application. The concept of this model is/will be implemented by Kiwi UserInterface Framework.

In this document, the model is described by the The KiwiScript Language.

Copyright

This document is written by Steel Wheels Project.

Project status

The specification the application object model is still under construction.

Structural Representation

The Application Object Model is described by the KiwiScript.

System

The system is a root of the Application Object Model. Every other objects are children of the system object. The system frame has application slot.


system: {
  application: {
   prototype: Application ;
    ... 
  }
  ...
}

Application

The application contains main menu and some documents.


application: {
 prototype: Application ;
 main_menu: {
  prototype: MainMenu ;
   ...
  } ;
 documents: [ # array of Document objects
  document0,
  document1,
  ...
 ] ;
}

Main Menu

Main menu is displayed at the top of the screen. This contains some menu items.


main_menu: {
 prototype: MainMenu ;
 file: {
  prototype: MenuItem ;
 }
 edit: {
  prototype: MenuItem ;
 }
 ...
}

Document

In usually, the document has a window. But it can have the multiple windows per document.


document: {
 windows: {
 	window1 : {
 	 prototype: Window ;
 	}
 ] ;
}

Window

Window contains some view objects on it.