Recent changes to feature-requests

extract and insert graphic state

Scott Johnston — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:16:30 -0000

Add tools (or commands) for extracting the graphic
state from an existing graphic, and inserting the
current graphic state into an existing graphic. Also
could develop a graphic state stack at the same time.

flipbook load multiple graphic files

Scott Johnston — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 22:05:49 -0000

flipbook could load multiple graphics files when
provided (via wildcard or not) on the command line, one
per frame.

clipping

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:41:46 -0000

As far as I can see there is no function for clipping to
restrict the graphics output to a clipping rectangle. There
could be a 'cliprect' command in comdraw to implement
this.

add horizontal scrollbar to ivtext

Scott Johnston — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:07:10 -0000

add horizontal scrollbar to ivtext (texteditor).

export all if no selection

Scott Johnston — Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:25:42 -0000

Export entire drawing if the current selection is
empty. Useful for
SVG export, and more intuitive then being told you have
to always select something.

make install should respect DESTDIR

Ben Hines — Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:46:14 -0000

I am attempting to build a Fink package for ivtools. Fink is a Mac OS X package manager - http://fink.sf.net/ - i have it working, but there is one problem.

Fink lives in a /sw sub-heiarchy that has /usr, bin, etc. It also builds debs. So we use both --prefix and DESTDIR. Most packages build like so:

configure --prefix=/sw
make
make install DESTDIR=/sw/src/root-ivtools-1.0.3-1/sw/

The install then goes into a deb, which users then install without having to compile.

However, ivtools mixes the compile and install phases. DESTDIR is ignored. So i have to specify a "prefix" of my install directory, which sort-of works, but generates errors like:

c++ -g -O2 -o a.out *.o -L/sw/src/ivtools-1.0.3-1/ivtools-1.0/src/Time/DARWIN -lTime -L/sw/src/ivtools-1.0.3-1/ivtools-1.0/src/IVGlyph/DARWIN -lIVGlyph -L/sw/src/ivtools-1.0.3-1/ivtools-1.0/src/IV/DARWIN -lIV -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -L/sw/src/root-ivtools-1.0.3-1/sw/lib -lstdc++ -lm
/usr/bin/ld: warning -L: directory name (/sw/src/root-ivtools-1.0.3-1/sw/lib) does not exist

Of course it does not yet exist, because i'm not installing at that point, just compiling.

ivtools needs to respect separate prefix and DESTDIR and not mix the compile and install phases.

floating point graphics

Scott Johnston — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:31:43 -0000

Graphics with floating point coordinates could co-exist
with the original integer-based graphics. All
intermediate transformations done to graphic
coordinates are in floating point, and they are only
reduced to integers when rendered to the screen.

save text commands between frames

Scott Johnston — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:33:22 -0000

Now the text command window at the bottom of drawserv
and flipbook is cleared every time the current frame
changes. This was a design decision to support a
unique annotation per frame, but is not that useful
when this window is used for a command interpreter.
The default should be to retain the contents of this
window as frames are navigated. Current behavior
should be an option.

multiple and multi-line exprs in comdraw text editor

Scott Johnston — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 23:56:25 -0000

Add support for multiple expressions per line and
multiple lines per expression to the text editor box
at the bottom of comdraw, etc..

three deep streams

Scott Johnston — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:01:58 -0000

Comterp supports doubly-nested streams. It will take
some more work to support triply-nested streams and
more.