MacTech Magazine has announced that their September Programmer's
Challenge will be an open language competition, which means for the
first time MetaCard and Revolution developers have a decent shot at
winning the prize:
http://www.mactech.com/progchallenge/2001_09_Challenge.html
A quick search on Google.com turned up quite a few examples of the
kinds of diagrams they're talking about. For example:
http://www.open.org/~prslkg/sy_chap.htm
I encourage everyone to at least take a look at the challenge
description and if the spirit moves you, prepare an entry. Doesn't
look like it would be too hard to make something like this using
graphic objects with labels. Note that you can put multiple lines in
the label property and that you can position the label as needed using
the margin and textAlign properties. Put them all in a scrolling
group sized to fit the window. Zoom will be a little trickier since
it's not built in, but the math required to reset the rect or points
properties of the graphics is pretty straightforward. Note that they
also only allow two weeks, which means that you probably won't be
competing with a whole bunch of slick C/C++ entries ;-)
If you need any motivation or assistance, don't hesitate to contact
me.
Regards,
Scott
********************************************************
Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard@lists.runrev.com/
Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
