Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!bu.edu!nntp-xfer.bu.edu!rosen From: rosen@polar.bu.edu (David B. Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews Subject: more idraw enhancement suggestions Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 01:56:42 GMT References: <1991Apr17.125617.19077@ira.uka.de> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Distribution: comp,world Organization: Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems Lines: 33 In-reply-to: prechelt@i41s14.ira.uka.de's message of 17 Apr 91 12:56:17 GMT Congratulations to the authors of idraw, unidraw, and interviews for writing some great software. Here's my list of suggestions for enhanced capabilities of idraw: 1) Ability to include (and scale/stretch/etc.) arbitrary EPSF/EPSI files as objects. 2) Ability to use the entire postscript character set in text objects (not just the bottom 128!). 3) Choose centered, right, or left alignment of text in text objects. This is mainly for alignment of multiple lines of text within an object, but would also affect where the text appears in relation to the place you originally clicked to place it. 4) Subscripts and superscripts within text objects. 5) Ability to mix different fonts and font sizes within a single text object. 6) Raster objects. (Or does IV3.0 version of idraw already have this? I think unidraw does, so it should be easy to put it in.) Import/export in some popular image format(s). 7) Constrained move, like on the mac. I.e. when you hold down the shift key during a move, you can move the object horizontally or vertically, but not both. (Suggested by Gary Bradski I think.) -- David B Rosen, Cognitive & Neural Systems Internet: rosen@cns.bu.edu Center for Adaptive Systems Bitnet: rosen%kenmore AT BUACCA Boston University. UUCP: {harvard,uunet}!bu.edu!bucasb!rosen "Says who? I speak for nobody, except occasionally myself."