NAME
CAD::Drawing::IO::Tk - GUI I/O methods for CAD::Drawing
NOTICE
This module is considered extremely pre-ALPHA and its use is probably
deprecated by the time you read this.
AUTHOR
Eric L. Wilhelm
ewilhelm at sbcglobal dot net
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mycroft
COPYRIGHT
This module is copyright (C) 2003 by Eric L. Wilhelm and A. Zahner Co.
LICENSE
This module is distributed under the same terms as Perl. See the Perl
source package for details.
You may use this software under one of the following licenses:
(1) GNU General Public License
(found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
(2) Artistic License
(found at http://www.perl.com/pub/language/misc/Artistic.html)
NO WARRANTY
This software is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. The author and
his employer will in no way be held liable for any loss or damages
resulting from its use.
Modifications
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SEE ALSO
CAD::Drawing::IO
Tk
Changes
0.02 First public release
0.03 Fighting with Fonts (time to abandon Tk)
Methods
There is no constructor for this class, its methods are inherited via
CAD::Drawing::IO
Thoughts
Need to re-structure the entire deal to have its own object which
belongs to the drawing object (or does the drawing object belong to this
object?) Either way, we need to be able to build-up into interactive
commands (possibly using eval("\$drw->$command"); ?)
Ultimately, the focus here will likely drift toward supporting perlcad
and enabling use of perlcad from within CAD::Drawing scripts. However,
the nature of lights-out scripting vs the nature of on-screen drafting
is quite different, so there will be some tricks involved. Once each
entity has its own class, the ability to install callbacks and the
resolution of notifications should get easier. But, there will still be
the issue that a debug popup does not know it will appear when the
entities are created, while a drafting viewport does (or does it?)
Possibly, adding a list of tk-id's to each $obj as it is drawn would be
a good starting point.
show
Creates a new window (no options are required.)
$drw->show(%options);
Available Options
forkokay => bool -- Attempt to fork the new window
window => MainWindow -- Use the pre-existing Tk object
stl => Message -- Use pre-existing Message widget
size => [W,H] -- Specify window size in pixels
width => W -- alias to size
height => H -- ditto
center => [X,Y] -- Center the drawing at (X,Y)
scale => factor -- Zoom by factor (default to fit)
bgcolor => color -- defaults to "white"
hang => boolean -- if not, you just get the canvas widget
items => \@list -- sorry, not compatible with select_addr :(
Draw
Draws geometry on the Tk canvas $cnv. List of items to draw must be
specified via addresses stored in $options{items}.
The newest fad (:e) is the $options{tag} argument, which uses
addr_to_tktag() to tag the item.
$drw->Draw($cnv, %options);
tkbindings
Setup the keybindings.
$drw->tkbindings($mw, $cnv);
text_size_reset
text_size_reset($cnv);
free_dist
free_dist();
windowzoom
Creates temporary bindings to drawing a rubber-band box.
windowzoom($cnv);
tksetview
No longer used
$drw->tksetview($cnv, %options);
scalebox
Returns the scaling required to create a view which most closely matches
@ext to @size of canvas.
$scale = $drw->scalebox(\@size, \@ext);
dsp subroutine refs
each of these should do everything necessary to draw the item on the
canvas (but they might like to have a few options available?) and then
return a list of the Tk id's of the created items. Caller will then
assign identical tags to each id which is returned by each per-entity
call.
tkpoint
Returns only the first and second element of an array reference as a
list.
@xy_point = tkpoint(\@pt);
addr_to_tktag
Returns a stringified tag of form: <layer>###<type>###<id>
my $tag = $drw->addr_to_tktag($addr);
tktag_to_addr
Returns an anonymous hash reference which should serve as an address,
provided that $tag is a valid <layer>###<type>###<id> tag (and that the
entity exists in the $drw object (check this yourself.)
my $addr = $drw->tktag_to_addr($tag);