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Torben AEgidius Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk) wrote:
: 
: If you only need to manipulate the tree structures, and no other fancy
: objects it may be easier to make your own program from scratch that
: just uses the Draw/Artworks data format and calls the module for
: display. I have made programs that generate Draw format and have used
: the Draw module for display. The hard part may be to program the
: interactive manipulation part. I think something as fundamental as
: selecting and grouping objects may be exceedingly difficult to change
: in Artworks. I think the Artworks extensions are intended for adding
: new kinds of objects and new transformations on existing objects.
: 
: 	Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
I would also like to be able to do things like printing, adding text, adding
extra lines, etc. I could either make a program that does it all, but this
would take too much of my time (I really don't want to rewrite Draw or 
Artworks.) , or I could make a program to edit the structures, and import them 
to Draw afterwards, but I would loose the "special features" during the process.

Come to think of it, the "dynamic grouping" could be implemented in general
way which could be usefull to more people. Following scheme would solve my 
problem (a part of it), and would be usefull to anyone working on drawings 
having a treelike structure. You can create a "link" from one object to 
another. When an object is selected, the program would check whether it has 
links. If it has, select all dependend objects. Do this recursively. Group all
selected objects, or treat them as a group.

I really don't know whether all this is feasible, but that's why I ask.

Peter