Taligent: CommonPoint Application System
Illustrations used in print and online documentation as well as Inside Taligent Technology.
From a set of over 1000 concept illustrations and class notation diagrams.

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How Taligent fits in

 


 

Shifting the burden of complexity

 


 

Application framework vs. full application systems

 


 

Increasing development leverage

 


 

Evolution of application program structures

 


 

Procedural program structure for a traditional operating system

 


 

Calling API vs. subclassing API

 


 

Class library-framework continuum

 


 

An application is an ensemble of framework-based code

 


 

Subclassing affects a framework's behavior only within the subclassing application's address space

 


 

Overriding

 


 

A command that darkens the selected region

The interface for a model has two layers

 


 

A copy-and-paste scenario

 


 

An example of a user gesture

 


 

A control that generates a command

A control that generates an action

 


 

Using a cursor control

 


 

Media player class architecture

 


 

Current position of a player

 


 

Telephone handsets

 


 

MIDI classes