[Drawkit] New Beta drop now available

[Dave Robertson]

I'd like to agree with Brads suggestion to use Leopard features.

I'm developing a GIS based mapping application. It is leopard-only and  
I plan to use DrawKit to provide user-editable features. My planned  
release date for this is toward the end of 2008. By then Leopard will  
have been out for more than a year and we'll all be thinking about  
10.6...

Thanks Graham, for all the hard work you've put in to this. From the  
responses so far there's clearly developer interest out there, but it  
can take some time for a "critical mass" to build up. I think DrawKit  
has huge potential.

Cheers,
Dave Robertson.




On 16/04/2008, at 9:24 AM, Brad Larson wrote:

> 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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