1. Andrew J. Ko & Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University
CITRUS: A Language and Toolkit for Simplifying the Creation of Structured Editors for Code and Data
Andrew J. Ko & Brad A. Myers
Carnegie Mellon University

2. INTRODUCTION
Citrus - Creating Interactive Tools for Reshaping and Utilizing Structure.
It is a language and user interface toolkit.
Used to simplify the creation of editors for structured data and code.
It is specifically designed for creating model- view-controller based direct-manipulation editors for highly structured data.

3. CITRUS SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE
Citrus is an object-oriented, statically-typed and interpreted language
Features of the language
Elements
Properties
Expressions
Listeners and Notification
Restrictions
Serialization
Specify Languages

4. CITRUS USER INTERFACE TOOLKIT
Central design goals
Flexibility
Expressiveness
Features
Views
Graphical Objects
Layout
Behaviors
Animation
Styles
Drag and Drop
Keyboard and Mouse Pointer

5. EXAMPLE – TO DO LIST

6. QUESTIONS Does Citrus solve a problem ?
What are the advantages over traditional methods ?
Any drawbacks ?
What would you change ?

7. THANK YOU