From bbr at informatik.uni-kiel.de  Mon Apr 24 15:24:55 2006
From: bbr at informatik.uni-kiel.de (bbr@informatik.uni-kiel.de)
Date: Mon Apr 24 15:19:29 2006
Subject: [Blobs] Hi there, blobs people
Message-ID: <62823.89.53.3.229.1145906695.squirrel@www.informatik.uni-kiel.de>

Recently, I have begun using blobs for my own project. It already has many
features I need and the code is very readble (although there could be more
documentation). As these projects are all about give and take, I would
like to make my extensions publicly available. Wher should I send them and
how? Should I use darcs send? (Never worked with it.)

My first extension is about a more flexible placement of node labels:
Instead of just above or below, I need other placements as well. Thus,
I modified the Justify data type to my needs and migrated it to Network.hs.

Now, the following placements are possible, best used with rectangular nodes.

                         Above
          -----------------------------------------
          |               Top                     |
          |                                       |
          |                                       |
LeftBeside|LeftInside    Center        RightInside|RightBeside
          |                                       |
          |                                       |
          |               Bottom                  |
          -----------------------------------------
                          Below

Especially I need nodes which form boxes around the centered label.
But for this I need a possibility to call (logical)TextExtend from
outside of NetworkView (in the node creation routine). Where do I
get this mystical DC () value??

More to come!
Cheers
Bernd


From arjanvanijzendoorn at gmail.com  Tue Apr 25 09:35:45 2006
From: arjanvanijzendoorn at gmail.com (Arjan van IJzendoorn)
Date: Tue Apr 25 13:43:40 2006
Subject: [Blobs] Hi there, blobs people
References: <62823.89.53.3.229.1145906695.squirrel@www.informatik.uni-kiel.de>
Message-ID: <004b01c6686d$27f17f60$0a00000a@WoW>

Hi Bernd,

I am not the person to send updates to, but I can answer your question.

> But for this I need a possibility to call (logical)TextExtend from
> outside of NetworkView (in the node creation routine). Where do I
> get this mystical DC () value??

You can create a device context for the screen by called screenDCCreate (for 
which you need to import WXCore).

Cheers, Arjan