[Drawkit] New Beta drop now available

[Brad Larson]

DrawKit is an extremely impressive framework.  We manufacture devices  
that act like microscale pen plotters (for drawing out electronic  
circuits or dispensing biomolecules for fabrication of diagnostic  
tests) and these systems need good software for laying out the  
patterns to be dispensed on a surface.  Because their primary mode of  
dispensing is vector-based, we need good vector illustration  
software.  We aren't happy with the program we've developed in-house  
and DrawKit sounds like just what we need: a solid, feature-rich  
vector drawing framework that we can extend with machine-specific items.

We need to do a little more evaluation, but I believe we'll probably  
end up using DrawKit as the base for the next version of the drawing  
program we ship with our equipment.

On a side note, we've moved all our customers to Leopard in order to  
take advantage of Leopard-specific features in our core controller  
software.  It seems like there might be some advantages to be had in  
using Leopard features within DrawKit.  Core Animation layer-backing  
of the vector elements alone might lead to some significant  
performance improvements when dragging many elements around.  As you  
say in the release notes, the user base is currently small and any  
large modifications are best made at this stage rather than later on.   
I know you probably want to retain Tiger support in order to reach the  
broadest audience, but I thought I'd at least throw this out there.

On Apr 14, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
> Hi all (anybody?)
>
> I've just posted a new beta of DrawKit to the site. This represents a
> much better quality drop than the first one, and a great deal of hard
> work! Check out the release notes in the SDK download for more
> details. http://apptree.net/drawkitmain.htm
>
> I would like to know if anyone is using or planning to use DK in the
> near future, so I can gauge the potential user base and help plan some
> priorities for the coming months - so please let me know by replying
> on this list.
>
>
> cheers, Graham
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