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From: liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Daniel LaLiberte)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: Re: idraw enhancements
Message-ID: <LIBERTE.91Apr17120850@babbage.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 18:08:50 GMT
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In-Reply-To: prechelt@i41s14.ira.uka.de's message of 17 Apr 91 12: 56:17 GMT

From: prechelt@i41s14.ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt)
> ...
> 4. You can connect such objects A and B with lines by just clicking
>    on A and B after having selected an appropriate mode.
>    These connection lines are automatically directed to point to the center
>    of A and B but their visible part ends at the boundary of A and B.
> 
> 5. If you move A, all the connection lines associated with it, move
>    accordingly.

This sounds very much like Diagram! for the NeXT.  I bought it ($25
for students) and like it very much for drawing diagrams, but it doesnt
do much else that a drawing program normally supports.

Also, the Unidraw thesis by John Vlissides (CSL-TR-90-427) mentioned a
diagram editor built using Unidraw.  Is this a freebie?

It would be nice if someone would come out with a modification to
idraw that unified the select/move/resize separate tools into one
(following the mac-like conventions).  Since some people seem
to like the tools being separate, perhaps it should be optional to
combine them.

Dan LaLiberte
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu