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- From: derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter De Rijk)
- Subject: Programming Artworks?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.160641.3127@reks.uia.ac.be>
- Organization: U.I.A.
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:06:41 GMT
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- I need to make rather specialised drawings (for the molecular biologists
- under you: RNA secundary structure models). Rumour has it that it is
- possible to write extensions to Artworks. I would like to know whether this is
- indeed possible, how it is done, how difficult (or easy) it is, and what the
- possibilities are. I need the possibility to create the drawing on basis of a
- data file.
- I think I would also need following features:
- dynamic grouping: The drawings are kind of tree like: when the user
- selects a branch (for instanse to rotate it), all depending branches
- should be selected and rotated together with the parent.
- Text following a line, but the letters allways stay horizontal when
- rotated (yes somewhat like rotating a group of characters in
- RISC OS 2 Draw)
- I would like to know whether it is possible to implement these things
- in/together with Artworks, well, for a non official developer that is.
-
- Any information will be greatly appreciated,
-
- Peter
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