Re: ePiX GUI

[Helio Carlos Bortolon <heliocb@fem.unicamp.br>]

Hi folks,

I think that they are asking for something like a "ePiX Builder", drag and
drop, etc.

Best regards.

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| Helio Carlos Bortolon                    |
| Post-graduate student                    |
| heliocb@fem.unicamp.br                   |
| Dept. of Thermal and Fluid Sciences      |
| State University of Campinas, SP, Brasil |
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Andrew D. Hwang wrote:

> A few people (mostly Windows users, if it matters) have mentioned the
> desirability of a graphical interface to ePiX. While a GUI is premature
> (until the new version of the library is stable), and I don't see myself
> using one regularly (to me, a mouse is a barbaric tool of wrist injury
> and a poor substitute for the TAB key:), I'm sympathetic to the desire for
> one. Do any of you have ideas/opinions on:
> 1. What an interface should look like to a user,
> 2. What constitutes a good interface, both from a user's perspective, and
>   in terms of supporting ePiX's fundamental philosophy of mathematical
>   accuracy,
> 3. How best to implement a graphical interface as portably as possible?
> 
> --Andy
> 
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