"It's Hot, It's Hot."
WardAndKent repeated to each other. It was the
GroupSelect and drag that was hot. It was flicker-free. They had carefully CachedBitmaps
?, minimized their
RefreshRectangles and
DoubleBuffer-ed the display. The test case was an offset stack of rectangles with every other one selected. The smooth motion made the 2-1/2D jump to life. RobDuesberg
? took one version up to
UniversityOfWashington where Bjorn Freeman-Benson put it in front of a constraint system he was building for AlanBorning
?. Bjorn now has an editor called
CoolDraw. Must be cool.
The first ever
CrcCards described
HotDraw ....
MikeMiller made sure the labs goodie library got packaged up with the last version of TekSmalltalk
? ever shipped. I guess that's how
HotDraw made it to Europe where a lot of enhancement and conversion got done.
Ralph on the tool at one point or another.
(
WardAndRalphInNewOrleans &
KentAndRalphAtTheArchitectureWorkshop)
This latter effort led to Ralph's paper on
DocumentingFrameworksWithPatterns.
Where are they now? Here are links to various implementations that trace their roots, at least in part, to
HotDraw ...
It is instructive to compare Ken's and Erich's philosophies through their code.
MoinMoin has built-in support for
HotDraw.
Work on the Java Hotdraw implementation of
ErichGamma is now being continued as an open source project:
Hot Draw
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