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One suggestion to anyone who wants to work on a graphics editor
for BlackBox, consider not reinventing the wheel and base it on
an open standard like SVG:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
We have a hard enough time selling the idea of BlackBox, which
is currently proprietary, without inventing our own graphics api.
Just my two cents worth. : )
Stan
> On Jun 3, 2004, at 7:12 AM, Wijck, Bart van wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I'd like to be able to use a Visio style editor view. The user would
>> be able
>> to draw a graph using visual components from a palet (e.g. activity
>> and
>> product icons), or from a menu and draw arrows between them. It would
>> be nice if they snapped onto the icon (anchor points) and the arrows
>> move
>
>> if the icons are dragged elsewhere. Icons (and attached lines) should
>> be
>> able to be deleted.
>>
>> Clicking on for icons should provide forms for details (name etc).
>>
>> Possibly clicking with the right mouse button (or some other method)
>> on the activity icon should open a second editor view to create a
>> diagram of
>> activities and products at a lower level (decomposition).
>>
>> Is there a subsystem which comes somewhere close to the above? It
>> sounds
>> rather specific but could be quite generically useful.
>>
>> Regards, Bart
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