Andrew Project
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The Andrew Project, also known as Andrew User Interface System (AUIS), is a set of tools that allows users to create and distribute documents containing a variety of formatted and embedded objects. It is an open-source project run at the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (where it gets its name from Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, the founders of the institutions that eventually became Carnegie Mellon University). The Andrew Consortium governs and maintains the development and distribution of the Andrew Project
The Andrew Project encompasses three primary components. The Andrew User Environment (AUE) contains the main editor, help system, user interface, and tools for rendering multimedia and embedded objects. The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) contains all of the formattable and embeddable objects, and allows a method for developers to design their own objects. ATK allows for multi-level object embedding, in which objects can be embedded in one another. For example, we can embed a raster image object into a spreadsheet object. The Andrew Message System (AMS) provides a mail and bulletin board access, which allows the user to send, receive, and organize mail as well as post and read from message boards.
Components of Andrew
As of version 6.3, the following are all components of Andrew:
Applications
- Word processor (EZ)
- Drawing Editor (Figure)
- Mail and News Reader (Messages)
- Mail and News Sender (SendMessage)
- Font Editor (BDFfont)
- Documentation Browser (Help)
- Directory Browser (Bush)
- Schedule Maintainer (Chump)
- Shell Interface/Terminal (Console, TypeScript)
- AUIS Application Menu (Launch)
- Standard Output Viewer (PipeScript)
- Preferences Editor (PrefEd)
Graphical and Interactive Editors
- Equation Insert (EQ)
- Animation Editor (Fad)
- Drawing Editor (Figure)
- Insert Layout Insert (Layout)
- Display Two Adjacent Inserts (LSet)
- Extension and String Processing Language (Ness)
- Display and Edit Hierarchies (Org)
- Page Flipper (Page)
- Monochrome BMP Image Editor (Raster)
- Spreadsheet Insert (Table)<
- Text, Document, and Program Editor (Text)
See also
External links
- AUIS Components (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~AUIS/comp.html) - list of additional components for file formats, file management, and document editing.
- The Andrew Consortium (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~AUIS/) - has more information on this project as well as downloads