rassilon@mit-eddie.UUCP (06/15/87)
Here at CTS we are working on a graphical shipping route optimizer. The basics being that a map of the U.S. is displayed and then the user may zoom in on an area or a route to get/change information about that route/terminal. At any rate, the system is written in FORTRAN with UIS. Is there any reason for converting this to GKS? -- Rassilon
rassilon@eddie.MIT.EDU (Brian Preble) (06/17/87)
I would like to thank those of you who answered my original query. It would appear that GKS is the way to go for future projects but my current task has an audience of one large company who's machines run both GKS and UIS so there's no problem with portability. The only thing I know of that GKS supports and UIS doesn't is the ability to define the cursor as a "rubber band" box that stretches between the pointer and the point where it was defined. This in itself is almost enough to warrant my rewriting the UIS code as it would speed the "Zoom in on Area" routines immensely. However, from what I've heard GKS seems to have an excessive amount of verbiage to do even the simplest tasks. (But then again, I need 5 UIS calls if I want to display text in a color, size, or font other than the current settings.) At any rate, thanks for the advice, -- Rassilon --- Brian Preble Project Supervisor Center for Transportation Studies MIT, Cambridge, MA