Supervisor: Alan Sexton
Keywords: Graphics, Web
Brief Description:
There are a number of inexpensive high quality technical
figure drawing packages under Windows on PCs (Lotus Freelance,
Serif DrawPlus, TurboCad etc.). The same is not true of
Unix. There are public domain packages such as xfig and tgif,
both of which have much of the required functionality.
Unfortunately, they are both missing highly desirable features
(e.g. a full undo/redo system, more sophisticated grouping
facilities etc.). More importantly, they are examples of poor
user interface design with poor consistency and bad ergonomics
for common tasks.
This project is aimed at developing a good design for such a
tool and an implementation of significant elements of the
design. The emphasis in the design will be on experimenting
with novel interface elements and pushing consistency and
ergonomic issues as far as possible. The emphasis in the
implementation will be on a solid structure that can be the
basis of further projects in future years to develop a very
high quality public domain tool.
Special Equipment: No special equipment requirements
Special Software: No special software requirements
Maintained by A.P.Sexton@cs.bham.ac.uk
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