November 13, 2008 6:45 PM - 13 attended

The Squirrel GUI: design and implementation

Speaker: Ralph Ris, Squirrel Systems
Location: BCIT, Burnaby campus, SW3 - 1710,
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Time: 6:30 PM, Talk will begin at 6:45 PM
Description:
The Squirrel One interface will be demonstrated and a description of the steps taken to implement it. This is an opportunity to learn about the implementation of a restaurant management software product currently installed at over 10,000 companies worldwide.
Ralph Ris has a Bachelor of Science with combined major in math and computer science 1981 University of Victoria and a Masters of Mathematics with major in computer science 1983 University of Waterloo. He has been employed by Squirrel since 1983.
Squirrel
In operation since 1983, it introduced the use of touch screens into Restaurant point-of-sale in 1990. Sells restaurant specific point-of-sale management tools. This includes the hardware for entry as well as software for configuring the system, producing management reports, inventory control, labour management, and interfaces to payroll packages, hotel systems, payment systems (credit card, gift card and debit card) and clubs.

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    Everyone should design and build a ui framework once. This talk was a great overview of the Squirrel UI - a custom ui framework written using Java 1.1 on linux using raw AWT. It covered the basics of separating your UI from your business logic (MVC) and simple event handling and construction of basic UI components and layout management. It provided a good insight into the decision making process for a lightweight UI.
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