WADE: Simplified GUI Add-on Development for Third-party Software

Xiaojun Meng 1 Shengdong Zhao 1 Yongfeng Huang 1 Zhongyuan Zhang 1 James Eagan 2, 3 Ramanathan Subramanian 4
1 NUS - National University of Singapore
2 DIVA - Design, Interaction, Visualization & Applications
LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
3 INFRES - Département Informatique et Réseaux
4 UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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We present the WADE Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which simplifies the modification of the interface and functionality of existing third-party software without access to source code. WADE clones the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a host program through dynamic-link library (DLL) injection in order to enable (1) WYSIWYG modification of the GUI and (2) the modification of software functionality. We compare WADE with an alternative state-of-the-art runtime toolkit overloading approach in a user-study, finding that WADE significantly simplifies the task of GUI-based add-on development.

Keywords : WADE GUI Add-on integration WYSIWYG IDE
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Xiaojun Meng, Shengdong Zhao, Yongfeng Huang, Zhongyuan Zhang, James Eagan, et al.. WADE: Simplified GUI Add-on Development for Third-party Software. CHI '14: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2014, Toronto, Canada. pp.10, ⟨10.1145/2466110.2466192⟩. ⟨hal-01115276⟩

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