Dynamic Diagram Framework

DDF fills the "interface gap" left by the tools you use now. Sometimes lists and buttons hide the natural structure of your data, making an application harder to use. Diagrams are a better interface for complex applications. Diagram-based interfaces help you increase user satisfaction, increase user productivity and decrease user errors.

As a DDF helps your developer, reduce development time, increase software quality, minimize maintenance efforts and reduce overall software costs. DDF makes building diagrams simple. The layout and tools of DDF make it easy to develop interfaces quickly. The many options of the DDF allow developers to experiment with alternative designs with rapid prototyping.

Commercially available since 1995, DDF is a framework for quickly and easily adding dynamic direct manipulation diagrams to GUIs in Smalltalk. DDF makes it very easy to add an interactive diagram to an existing application GUI in less than a day. It's a powerful tool for building diagrams that are fully interactive, dynamic.

Applied Reasoning recognizes the demand for such a tool in Java technology and plans to launch DDF for Java at some point in time.

Dynamic Diagram Framework for Smalltalk