| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
I am currently in the early stages of populating an MCC locally. I am
looking at the presentation capability available. I already have
several Icons and Maps available to me from the VCS and DCW products
which I would like to incorporate into the MCC , I currently have these
files in DDIF format. What do I need to do to make them available to
MCC ?
Secondly, bearing in mind what is already available with VCS and DCW
(TCW?), are common Icons and Maps likely to be used with future
releases of VCS, MCC. It does not seem to make sense to have the two
product sets developing their own little graphic sets for the sake of
it (this does not mean that I think the ability to design your own
Icons should not be available). To introduce to a customer the MCC and
SMCC product sets with similar Icons and Maps would be far more
professional, Yes ?
Cheers,
Rex
;*<
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| 269.1 | TOOK::F_MESSINGER | Tue Aug 21 1990 12:31 | 17 | ||
Rex,
As far as making your maps (I presume you mean maps with icons and
lines and everything else) goes, we do not support it for version 1.1.
The reason being we have not written the code to disect ddif files and
create Gobe (that's the widget we are using) objects from them. Gobe
does support reading ddif files that it created, though. What your
asking for though does seem to be coming from more than one
direction.
You can, however convert your ddif icon files to x11 (XBM) format
by using decpaint or decwrite.
WRT using the same icon pictures across products, In *my* opinion,
yes we should. Can or will we do it?...
Fred
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| 269.2 | BSYBEE::EGOLF | John C. Egolf LKG2-2/T02 x226-7874 | Tue Aug 21 1990 21:20 | 10 | |
For the record, DECwrite doesn't convert anything to X11. We have used DECwrite to "create" icons, DECwindows 'capture screen' to get Icon into DDIF format, and DECpaint to convert DDIF to X11. As for common Icons, if you can get the VCS icons, or any other icons from any other product, you can easily add them to the DECmcc system (you must get them into x11 format). Which class they fit under is another issue. JCE | |||||