Table of contents

  • Copyright
  • Quick start
  • What's new
  • Objects, commands, and keyboard shortcuts
  • Selecting and moving objects
  • Connecting objects
  • Applying properties
  • Loading and saving drawings
  • Applet parameters
  • Downloading JAIDraw
  • More information
  • Acknowledgements
  • GAMELAN's Best Java

    Documentation

    Introduction

    JAIDraw is a drawing program allowing normal object (vector) based drawing. In addition you can connect objects by lines. The connections will be kept even if you move objects around. We use it to draw pictures of computer networks. JAIDraw 1.5.1 is backwards compatible to version 1.1.

    Note:
    Click here in case the loader or start button is not shown above this frame

    Quick start

    Once JAIDraw is loaded the start button for it will appear at the top of the page. Press it to open the JAIDraw frame.

    You will notice that the status bar of in the frame will contain help messages, depending on the location of the mouse. You should be able to get started using some common sense and these help messages.

    To close the frame, simple press the same button you used to open it.

    Downloading JAIDraw

    You may download the complete JAIDraw site, for local use at your own site. The packages contains the compiled (binary) Java classes for JAIDraw and the documentation. Please have a look at the copyright notice as well.

    The JAIDraw package is available in compressed tar and in zip format. Choose whichever suites you best. Both contain the same information.

    More information

    West Consulting BV is a software development company. We also do lots of Internet projects (see also Internet Connect Center).

    If you like this drawing tool, let me know. If you want your own Java applet contact us.

    Acknowledgements

    I started with the simple object drawing tool code from mark@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/employees/mark/.

    I've also used the ScrollPanel implementation from Jesse Hammons. The mail sender is based on work by Godmar Back http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/sendmail/index.html.

    The GIF encoder is copyright by Jef Poskanzer. See his web site at http://www.acme.com/java/.


    Last updated: $Date: 1998/08/25 13:28:44 $
    Marco Nijdam - marco@west.nl - West Consulting BV