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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 cpan dot org>

http://scratchcomputing.com

COPYRIGHT

This module is copyright (C) 2004-2006 by Eric L. Wilhelm. Portions 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, his former employer, and any other contributors will in no way be held liable for any loss or damages resulting from its use.

Modifications

The source code of this module is made freely available and distributable under the GPL or Artistic License. Modifications to and use of this software must adhere to one of these licenses. Changes to the code should be noted as such and this notification (as well as the above copyright information) must remain intact on all copies of the code.

Additionally, while the author is actively developing this code, notification of any intended changes or extensions would be most helpful in avoiding repeated work for all parties involved. Please contact the author with any such development plans.

SEE ALSO

CAD::Drawing::IO
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, but this gets us into trouble with multiple viewports.

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);