[Drawkit] Is DrawKit for me?

[Brian Bruinewoud]

Hi,

I have compiled the demos and I am impressed with DrawKit's abilities.
I have read the comments at the bottom of some of the header files so  
I think I have a vague understanding of the overall architecture.
I'm not sure, though, whether I can use DrawKit for my project. Or,  
perhaps more accurately, whether doing so is going to be more  
beneficial than writing my own stuff.

The things that I need to do that don't seem to be catered for by  
DrawKit are as follows:
Shapes will need to interact with each other: If I drag a shape so  
that it 'hits' another, both shapes need to do clever stuff so that  
they don't overlap. What they do exactly is based on the priority of  
each shape. But if they both had equal priority and were both  
rectangles of the same height, then their lengths would reduce equally.
Shapes that touch need to share the same sides. That is, the styles of  
the path drawn for the side. In fact, where shapes touch, only one of  
the shapes should draw a path.
Shapes need to have paths that have styles that vary along their  
lengths.

Rephrasing my requirements in terms of cartography (given that this is  
the driving application for Graham's development of DrawKit): Most of  
the shapes in my app will actually be 'areas', like countries on a  
continent; states in country; councils in a state; allotments in a  
council; etc. They have areas that need to cover their parent and  
share sides but do not overlap and those sides need to have the same  
attributes.

I guess I could do the first one by subclassing shape and writing  
another 'boolean-op' type function.

Not sure if DrawKit supports the last two at all very easily.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Brian

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