Limitations of RR for drawing apps?

xbury.cs at clearstream.com xbury.cs at clearstream.com
Wed Mar 3 10:25:42 EST 2004


There was such an example in the MC examples stack...
But you might have to update that MacPlus to make it work ;))

Just in a good metamood...

MacCheers
Xa

On 03/03/2004 15:54:35 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>As an offshoot discussion of this... Does anyone remember MacProject?  I
>still use it.  It's a wonderful tool for me.  I'd like to integrate
>something similar into my project.  Has anyone got any ideas about the
>construction of this in Rev?  Seems to me that the graphic interface has 
a
>challenge because a line has no properties - like an id, so attaching it 
to
>the centre of a box (task, which could be a field or a button) would be a
>problem.  If that one was solved, then using a large array plus a 
database
>would take care of the logical part...right?   Jim
>
>on 3/1/04 6:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Graham Samuel wrote:
>>
>>> I vaguely remember someone (Richard G?) saying that RunRev is not
>>> entirely suitable for creating vector drawing (and - maybe -
>>> painting) programs in the style of MacDraw or the drawing/painting
>>> features of AppleWorks....
>>
>> Depends on what you want to do.  Some types of drawing apps will work
>> great, but if you need scrolling documents and manipulatable lines and
>> polygons it's tricky.
>>
>> See Bugzilla for details: #622, 623, and 624.
>>
>> I'm told these are queued for possible implementation, but no projected
>> date has been given.
>>
>> In the meantime, it's hard to make the equivalent of SuperCard's
>> SampleDraw, and in some aspects not possible yet (or at least not with 
a
>> smoothness I feel comfortable delivering).
>>
>> For myself, rather than implement hard-earned/short-lived workarounds
>> I'm doing my stuff for the apps that need drawing tools in ways that
>> work around the current limitations, confident that a solid solution 
for
>> the whole kaboodle will be coming at some point....

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