User's Guide

Karl Lieberherr
Salil Pradhan
Matthew Wojcik
Mohnish Anumala
Mahendra Velchura
Joe Maranda
Manuel Freitas

Fri Mar 17 08:23:28 EST 1995

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Developed by:

Salil Pradhan (since Fall 1994)
Matthew Wojcik (since Winter 1995)
Mohnish Anumala (Fall 1994)
Mahendra Velchura (Fall 1994)


This Guide Written and Maintained by:

Joe Maranda (since Winter 1995)


Quality Assurance by:

Manuel Freitas (since Winter 1995)


Faculty:

Karl Lieberherr

• Contents
• INTRODUCING THE ISTHMUS PROJECT
  • Theory of Isthmus
  • Incremental Development
    • The First Isthmus
    • Isthmus With Class Dictionaries
    • Isthmus With Propagation Patterns
  • Starting With Isthmus
• USING ISTHMUS AND CLASS DICTIONARIES
  • Creating the Environment
  • Using the Class Dictionaries in TclTk
  • Functions &Example Calls
    • Generic Functions
    • Object Manipulation Functions
• PROPAGATION PATTERNS
  • Creating the Environment
  • Using Propagation Patterns with Isthmus
    • A Short Example
    • A Longer Example
  • Calling Tcl from Propagation Patterns
• CONFIGURING THE IMAKEFILE
• EXTRA INFORMATION
  • Isthmus Location at NU
• INSTALLING THE ISTHMUS TOOL SET
  • Supported Platforms
  • Installation
  • A Concrete Example
  • Self Test?
• About this document ...