hallett@armstrong.steinmetz (Jeff A. Hallett) (05/27/88)
In article <2914@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes: > I think I'll start a slight controversy, if Ashton Tate needs to dump >something to get the memory requirement down. How about the Picture >drawing enviroment. I'd rather use a "real" drawing enviroment anyways. >Comments, anyone just absolutly in love with FWP drawing enviroment. I'm >not. The rest of the program is very very good, but the drawing enviroment >might be a good canidate for axing. I must agree. The drawing environment leaves some things to be desired. I mean it is a good effort and a nice idea, but there are so many drawing packages that can do more and export their pictures via Clipboard, that it looks like reinventing the wheel. I would have been happy just having a little Picture thing that could open MacDraw and PICT (and possibly others) files and allow me to just select the parts I want to use. If they are going to keep the Picture drawing environment, to make me happy, they would need to fix three things: 1. The text is really in hurting shape. To plant or edit a text object, I wouldn't need another window or panel to do it in. 2. The grid needs fine-tuning. As is, it is too coarse and inflexible. 3. I want to be able to create a border for my picture without having to draw it in. The best thing to do would be to just copy the bordering controls from sidebars into pictures. Also, captions would be nice - ie. a text label that is attached to the picture and centered with it. With MultiFinder becoming so prevelent, a built-in environment like this is really unneeded. For those of us who are not full MultiFinder users, there are tons of picture-drawing da's which are still better than FullWrite's. Mind you, the implementer's work is appreciated, but probably was unnecessary. Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa Software Technology Program | UUCP: desdemona!hallett@steinmetz.uucp GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | "The past is just a fiction created to explain the discrepancy between | | my current state and my senses' perceptions." | | - The Ruler of the Universe | | "The Restaurant at the End | | of the Universe" | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+