Assignment title: Information
e first programming project involves writing a program that parses, using
recursive descent, a GUI definition language defined in an input file and
generates the GUI that it defines. The grammar for this language is defined
below:
gui ::=
Window STRING '(' NUMBER ',' NUMBER ')' layout widgets
End '.'
layout ::=
Layout layout_type ':'
layout_type ::=
Flow |
Grid '(' NUMBER ',' NUMBER [',' NUMBER ',' NUMBER] ')'
widgets ::=
widget widgets |
widget
widget ::=
Button STRING ';' |
Group radio_buttons End ';' |
Label STRING ';' |
Panel layout widgets End ';' |
Textfield NUMBER ';'
radio_buttons ::=
radio_button radio_buttons |
radio_button
radio_button ::=
Radio STRING ';'
In the above grammar, the red symbols are nonterminals, the blue symbols are
tokens and the black punctuation symbols are BNF metasymbols. Among the
tokens those in title case are keywords. The character literals are punctuation
tokens.
Below is an explanation of the meaning of some of the symbols in the above
productions that should help you understand the actions that are to be performed
when each of the productions is parsed:
• In the window production the string is name that is to appear in the top border
of the window and the two numbers are the width and height of the window
• In the production for layout_type that define the grid layout, the first two
numbers represent the number of rows and columns, and the optional next
two the horizontal and vertical gaps
• In the production for widget that defines a button, the string is the name of the
button
• In the production for widget that defines a label, the string is text that is to be
placed in the label
• In the production for widget that defines a text field, the number is the width of
the text field
• In the production for radio_button, the string is the label of the button
You parser should properly handle the fact that panels can be nested in other
panels. Recursive productions must be implemented using recursion.
Below is an example of an input file:
Window "Calculator" (200, 200) Layout Flow:
Textfield 20;
Panel Layout Grid(4, 3, 5, 5):
Button "7";
Button "8";
Button "9";
Button "4";
Button "5";
Button "6";
Button "1";
Button "2";
Button "3";
Label "";
Button "0";
End;
End.
The above input file should produce the GUI shown below: