[cad-linux] Re: Varkon 1.17 sourcecode -- uploaded
- From: phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 03:11:36 -0800 (PST)
--- 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:
//www.freelists.org/archives/cad-linux/01-2003/
//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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phrostie
Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS
and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings.
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