CompuServe Thread

This is in response to message 88191 I thank you for your reply to my message I posted on 10-10-87. I have been aiming to get this message in for some time. Not being a programmer in any language other than Basic, I can not give an authoritarian anwser to how I would like to see the programming of a CAD package work. But what I would like to see is this. I would like to have the Draw program completely controlled from a "script" file of commands that could be made using Basic, or any other language for that matter. This would be from the loading of parts off disk to their determined x-y co-ordinates on the screen, string placement on the screen with selectable text size and direction, a line drawn from x-y point to x-y point,etc., in short, any thing that you could do with the keyboard and mouse, you could do with this script. This type of programmability could be a good selling item for Aegis as well as the Amiga. If Draw could be the tool with which other programs were designed to control, it would only serve to increase the marketability of Draw. My drafting vocation is a narrowly specialized one, as so many other people's, and I do not forsee any CAD packages for my line of work. But with Draw having the ability of this type of programming, it would allow so many secondary programmers to write programs, using Draw as the base tool. A person sells one of these secondary programs, you sell Draw. Hope to see Draw drawing by its self in the future, while I sit back, watch, and drink a cup of coffee !! Bill Snow 73260,47