Philippe Grosjean
SciViews: an object-oriented abstraction layer to design GUIs on top
of various calculation kernels
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SciViews aims to provide a unique, polymorph object-oriented interface
(called "Plug") to different data analysis software like R, Octave, Scilab,
Matlab, Splus, Ox, Mathematica,... It is thus possible to develop
(Graphical) User Interfaces independently to the calculation kernel and
adapt them easily to other systems. Moreover, the same GUI can possibly
access several kernels simultaneously. A working prototype is developed
in Visual Basic for Windows, but other implementations of this concept
are possible. A plug to connect R is provided. Other plugs are in various
stages of achievement. Several clients are also in development, including
SciViews compatible clients for office programs (Excel and Word) and a
versatile GUI with menus, toolbars, docking windows, a complete IDE and
an integrated reporting system for generating rich-formatted texts with
graphs called "Insighter".