Mark Minas. VisualDiaGen - A Tool for Visually Specifying and Generating Visual Editors. In John L. Pfaltz, Manfred Nagl, Boris Böhlen, editors, Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance, Second International Workshop, AGTIVE 2003, Charlottesville, VA, USA, September 27 - October 1, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Volume 3062 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 398-412, Springer, 2003.
VisualDiaGen is a tool for visually specifying visual languages and generating graphical editors from such specifications that are mainly based on graph transformation and graph grammars. VisualDiaGen is an extension of DiaGen that has already allowed for specification and generation of visual editors; however, DiaGens specifications have been based on a textual and, therefore, a less user-friendly representation. This paper describes how VisualDiaGen has been built on top of DiaGen and by using DiaGen as well. VisualDiaGen reuses DiaGens specification tool. However, components that have still used a textual notation instead of the naturally visual one have been replaced by visual editors which have been specified and generated with DiaGen.