Visual Perl/Tk editor (canvas edition)

  (by Felix Liberman - FelixL@Rambler.ru)

This editor can help any unexperienced in programming user to create canvas-based Perl/Tk graphics and embed it to Perl/Tk application.

  0. Disclaimer

This software distributed FREE under GNU Public License.
You can visit http://www.gnu.org in order to see details.
See also Chapter 7 of this document.

  1. Main menu

All editing functions can be called from main menu:


  2. Toolbar

Some commonly used actions associated with toolbar buttons.


  3. Keyboard shortcuts

There are also keyboard shortcuts for main commands:
  Ctrl/Z - Undo
  Ctrl/O - File Open
  Ctrl/S - File Save
    D    - Duplicate
   DEL   - Delete

  4. Mouse

Mouse functions:

  Left button - select object under cursor
  Left button drag - drag/resize object(s) (if any selected)
  Rignt button drag - select/unselect group of objects

  5. Selection

  There are 3 modes of selection:
  1. Simple single-object selection - select by clicking.
  In this mode user can drag, erase or edit object properties by clicking on respective icon:


  2. Multiple objects selection - stretch area with right button.
  In this mode user can drag all selected objects by mouse or erase/duplicate using menu/toolbar/keyboard


  3. Object points editing - click on selected or on icon
  In this mode user can drag any object point (or resizing bar) or cut segments by clicking on 'scissors' icon


  6. Status bar

  In the bottom of editor window located status bar, displaying ID of currently selected object and modification flag

NOTE:
When going back with 'undo' to state before 1st modification
the flag remain 'dirty' :-(

  7. Some more words from author

  My program developed for "fair use" suggesting that user would not try intentionally damage any data. From my side done all the best in order to supply powerful 'undo' mechanisms for such cases elimination. All bug reports are welcomed and will be served ASAP.

  You can contact me, download updated versions of this program and other software from my site http://felixl.coolpage.biz/download.html

  8. Copyright

Copyright (c) 2002 Felix Liberman

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.