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

--- Dan Falck <dfalck@> wrote:
> 
> Varkon is not intuitive, but I guess it was meant for people like us to 
> carve up and reuse :)

definately.

> One thing that had me scratching my head for the longest time was the 
> use of the right mouse button.

i liked that.  it thru me a loop at first, but i caught on quick enough.

>  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. 

it's somewhere in the archives:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/cad-linux/01-2003/
http://www.freelists.org/archives/cad-linux/12-2002/


> I can't remember where 
> they are but  can dig if you want.
> Dan
> 
> alvin@ wrote:
> 
> >     
> > its the same problem as before ( operator error )
> >     - i dont know how to bring up an empty canvas
> >     or draw a line or circle
> >     or laod an existing *.dwg file
> > 
> > - if its not intuitive... i give up.. :-)
> > 
> > thanx
> > alvin
> 
> 
> 
> 


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