Dynamic Dialogs: Simplified Programming of Complex, Responsive User Interfaces

Currently, the dominant paradigms of programming user interfaces (UIs) regard the UI as a collection of objects with lifetimes, to be created, connected, constrained, made to handle events, and so forth. A simpler and older paradigm is that the UI is painted, repeatedly, as if on a blank window. Dynamic Dialogs(DD) are UIs programmed as if they were only painted, without regard to underlying UI objects. Those objects are automatically created, destroyed, and otherwise managed, by a Differential Execution(DE) technique. Benefits are accuracy, responsiveness, structural variability, and reduction of source code by about an order of magnitude.