[cad-linux] Re: Varkon 1.17 sourcecode -- tutorial
- From: <alvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:26:05 -0800 (PST)
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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