VPE for Chronobot

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VPE for Chronobot

• Mehmut Abliz Yaw Anti Gyamfi

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Components

• VLInterface
• VLParser
• Page Description Panel
• page description data structure
• Code generator

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VLInterface

• Icon buttons
• Panel to display iconic sentences
• code window to display results of parsing
• icon definition file
• allows the system to be used in another domain
• Menu definition files
• allows new menu options to be defined

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VLParser

• Language definition
• in the form of context-free grammars for textual
  languages
• allows a programmer to define the semantics of
  icon combinations specific to the domain
• Returns groups of correctly parsed sentences
• locates the error token if any

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Page Description Panel

• Provides tools to allow
• programmer to define pages
• links between pages
• programmer to define groups of functions
• dependencies between functions
• pages within which the functions reside
• Builds the page description data structure
• used by the code generator to generate the
  necessary html and jsp pages

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Code Generation Page Description Parsing
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Page Description Parsing

• Take the Page Description list, and run a DFS on
  the list
• For each Page and Function generate HTML and JSP
  code

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Code Generation

• Templates
• Special tags in templates
• Change special tags according to users input to
  generate the actual code