[cad-linux] Re: Varkon 1.17 sourcecode -- tutorial


hi ya dan

the only docs (varkon tutorial)  i found was
        http://www.database.com/~lemur/vk-varkon-tutorial.html
        ( guess i should make a local copy of it too )

thanx for the source code ( uploaded now )
        http://www.Linux-CAE.net/CAD/Varkon

c ya
alvin

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Dan Falck wrote:

> 
> Varkon is not intuitive, but I guess it was meant for people like us to 
> carve up and reuse :)
> One thing that had me scratching my head for the longest time was the 
> use of the right mouse button.  Anytime you use a button on the floating 
> menu bar, you can go backwards in the menu by right clicking on the main 
> canvas.
> I have to admit, I have only done 2d work with it and very limited at 
> that.  The MBS programming language is what makes it interesting.  If 
> you draw something and make a mistake, there is no "undo", but you can 
> press the MBS button and edit everything that has happened in the 
> drawing.  So, the whole drawing is controlled by a script.
> You can choose which editor the MBS script comes up in.  It could be 
> really interesting to make it come up in an editor with some heavy duty 
> macros (EMACS maybe?).
> Someone posted the URl to the docs for varkon.  I can't remember where 
> they are but  can dig if you want.
> Dan
>

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