<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>10 Drawing Board</TITLE><LINK href="ozdoc.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></HEAD><BODY><TABLE align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6" class="nav"><TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD><A href="index.html">- Up -</A></TD><TD><A href="chat.html#chapter.chat">Next >></A></TD></TR></TABLE><DIV id="chapter.board"><H1><A name="chapter.board">10 Drawing Board</A></H1><H3 class="authors"><A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~mehl/">Michael Mehl</A>, <A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~scheidhr/">Ralf Scheidhauer</A>, <A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~schulte/">Christian Schulte</A> and <A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~smolka/">Gert Smolka</A></H3><P> </P><P class="linkmenu">[ <A href="applets/Board.oza">Start Applet</A> | <A href="../install/node14.html#appendix.applets">How to enable Applets</A> ]</P><P> </P><P> The drawing board allows multiple, distributed users to create and manipulate graphics. All users have the same, consistent view of the drawing. </P><DIV class="unnumbered"><H2><A name="label11">Drawing</A></H2><P> </P><DL><DT>Tools </DT><DD><P>The selected tool determines the kind of graphical object that is created when clicking the drawing area. </P></DD><DT>Create </DT><DD><P>Clicking over the drawing area, a graphical object as determined by the selected is created at the mousposition. </P></DD><DT>Modify </DT><DD><P>Object can be modified by clicking them with the middle mouse button. While they are modified other users can not alter the particulat object. </P></DD><DT>Delete </DT><DD><P>Clicking an object with the right mouse button deletes it. </P></DD></DL><P> </P></DIV><DIV class="unnumbered"><H2><A name="label12">Mailing Applets</A></H2><P> Pressing <EM>Mail Applet</EM>, generates a new board applet on the fly and sends it by mail. The recipient can execute the applet and can by this join into the existing drawing board. </P><P> Note that mailing applets is currently not possible on windows platforms at all. In addition, mailing applets relies on the program <CODE>metasend</CODE>, which is part of the <CODE>metamail</CODE> package. A discussion of the software package you can find in <A href="bib.html#peek.95">[Pee95]</A>. The package is available at </P><TABLE align="center" class="dyptic"><TR valign="top"><TH><P>North America</P></TH><TD><P><A href="ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z"> <CODE>ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z</CODE> </A> </P></TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TH><P>Europe</P></TH><TD><P><A href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/mail/metamail/mm2.7.tar"> <CODE>ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/mail/metamail/mm2.7.tar</CODE> </A> </P></TD></TR></TABLE><P> </P><P> Most Linux distributions I am aware of also include the package. </P><P> The currently participating users are listed by their mail address in the <CODE>Users</CODE> area. </P></DIV><DIV class="unnumbered"><H2><A name="label13">Saving Applets</A></H2><P> Pressing <EM>Save Applet</EM>, generates a new board applet on the fly and saves it to a pickle. Executing the pickled applet joins into the drawing board from which the applet was saved. </P></DIV><DIV class="unnumbered" id="section.board.implementation"><H2><A name="section.board.implementation">Implementation</A></H2><HR><UL class="toc"><LI><A href="node36.html#code.board">Root functor: <CODE>Board.oz</CODE></A></LI></UL></DIV></DIV><TABLE align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6" class="nav"><TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD><A href="index.html">- Up -</A></TD><TD><A href="chat.html#chapter.chat">Next >></A></TD></TR></TABLE><HR><ADDRESS><SPAN class="version">Version 1.4.0 (20090610)</SPAN></ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>
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