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Re: Drawing in IV

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From: Gordon Joly
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:24
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John Vlissides writes:
 > 
 > In article <wdsFWk200XQGM4hlJZ@andrew.cmu.edu>, you write:
 > 
 > > I want to create a window in IV 3.01 and then draw some simple graphics
 > > in it (i.e. circles, lines, splines) with the desire of being able to
 > > tell when the user clicks on one of these shapes later or selects it by
 > > rubber banding.
 > >
 > > I can create my window in IV but I am having great troubles with Unidraw
 > > trying to figure out how to draw stuff in this window.  Is Unidraw what
 > > I should be using?  I would greatly appreciate any insight or example
 > > programs that anyone has to offer.
 > 
 > Check out the punidraw tutorial in iv/src/papers/punidraw.ps.Z.  If
 > you'd like information on Unidraw beyond the man pages, you might
 > check out the article that appeared in the July 1990 issue of ACM
 > Transactions on Information Systems, titled "Unidraw: A Framework for
 > Building Domain-Specific Graphical Editors."
 > 
 > For more detail, you can order a copy of my thesis for a nominal cost
 > by sending mail to Naomi Schulman (schulman@shasta.stanford.edu).  Ask
 > for a copy of CSL-TR-90-427, titled "Generalized Graphical Object
 > Editing".  You can ftp the code for some of the example programs
 > described therein from interviews.stanford.edu in
 > pub/contrib/{drawing,schem}.tar.Z.
 > 
 > --
 > John Vlissides / IBM T.J. Watson Research / vlis@watson.ibm.com


Would it be possible to release the TeX (with attendant EPS/PS
diagrams) or dvi for iv/src/papers/punidraw.ps ?

I ask since we have been unable to print this on any printer. The
(rangecheck) error from PostScript is do with "lettertray".

Gordon.
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