ParaQ:Design

Overview

This page serves as the formal gathering place for discussions, documentation, and doodling related to ParaQ design. It's the final resting place for documents that may appear other places in the site (for example, on the page for a meeting, if the document was presented at that meeting).

Initial Design

• Design document, presented and discussed at the first ParQ summit.
• Crash Test Dummies - the modern-day equivalent of straw men.
• Secure Connections - discusses using SSL to secure forward and reverse connections, plus reconnects, etc.

Hello World Client

• Hello World Connections - discusses how the "Hello, World" client interfaces with the PSM to allow for server disconnects/reconnects.
• Hello World Testing - brief overview of the prototype testing implemented in the "Hello, World" client.
• Hello World Modality - how to (and how not to) implement modal dialogs in ParaQ.
• Remote File Browser API - proposed changes & additions to the current PSM API for remote file browsing.
• Hello World Updates - a framework for handling screen updates that allows for a wide variety of update policies.

Scripting

• Notes on ParaQ and PSM Scripting
• Scripting:Requirements

Testing

• Testing Requirements

UI Design Guidelines Document

• UI Design Guidelines document
• UI Design Literature Study

Undo

• Undo Design