KwikDraw - An Object Oriented Drawing Program Freeware Version 2.01f (Freeware Version) Copyright 1991-1994 Paul Schimpf This drawing program, unlike a paint program, is object oriented. This means that after drawing objects (such as rectangles, ellipses, lines, text, curves, or polygons), you have the ability to select and modify them as independent entities. In a paint program an object, once it is drawn, loses it's identity as an independent entity. Any editing capability in a paint program must thus treat all the objects as mere patterns of bits on the drawing surface. KwikDraw has extensive on-line help that describes its use. If you choose to purchase an unrestricted version then you will also receive a manual. This is a Freeware version of KwikDraw. IT IS FREE. This Freeware version will limit the number of objects that you may create to 32. This limit is high enough to make the program useful for simple drawings (for example, see the file flow.kwk). You are also allowed to load, print, and transfer the more complex example drawings (such as train.kwk). Although this version is intended to be a demo of the commercial version, you may find that 32 objects is sufficient for your purposes. If this is the case, then feel free to use and distribute this version, on the condition that none of the files included in the distribution is modified in any way. You may also purchase a commercial version of KwikDraw by writing (use the handy order form in order.txt, which may be opened and printed from the File menu above), calling, or sending a request via electronic mail (see below). The current price is $37.95 plus $3.00 Shipping in the U.S. and Canada ($6.00 overseas), and $3.00 for C.O.D. (prices subject to change). Mastercard, Visa, or personal checks are acceptable. REGISTERED USERS WILL BE UPGRADED WITH BUG FIXES FREE OF CHARGE. REGISTERED USERS ARE ALSO ENTITLED TO UPGRADES AT 33% (CURRENTLY $12.52), PLUS THE NORMAL SHIPPING AND HANDLING FEE. Please note that the commercial version of KwikDraw is NOT Freeware, and may NOT be distributed to others - it uses the executable filename "kwikdraw.exe", whereas the Freeware version uses the filename "kdraw_fw.exe". The Human Interface attn: Paul Schimpf 902 94th St. S.E. Everett, WA 98208 (206) 348-9043 CompuServe Address: 71052,225 Internet Address: 71052.225@COMPUSERVE.COM You may make checks payable to "Paul Schimpf" or to "The Human Interface." The following files are included in this distribution: KDRAW_FW.EXE - Freeware version of KwikDraw. KWIKHELP.HLP - On-line Microsoft Windows Help file. READ.ME - Installation instructions for KwikDraw. TRAIN.KWK - Sample Drawing - a choo choo train. CAR.KWK - Sample Drawing - a hot rod. FLOW.KWK - Sample Drawing - a process flow diagram. SCHEMATC.KWK - Sample Drawing - a circuit schematic. LOGIC.KWK - Sample Parts Library used for SCHEMATC.KWK LANDSCP2.KWK - Sample Drawing - a landscape example. SWLTAIL.KWK - Sample Drawing - a really nice butterfly. ORDER.TXT - Handy form for ordering registered version. KWIKDRAW.TXT - This file. Future enhancements to KwikDraw may include: Multiple Drawing Layers User Defineable Fill Patterns Rulers Bitmap Support More ... Let me know what is important or desireable to YOU Revision History: 1.00 03-09-92 Original Release. 1.01 04-07-92 Must now point close to a Line object to select it. Added optional Polygon termination on right button. Detects drawing changes to avoid annoying questions. 1.10 04-14-92 Text Objects now allow multiple lines. Comprehensive Undo, Redo added. Text objects will now rotate. 1.11 04-16-92 Text can now be edited three ways: from Edit Menu, by double-clicking it, or by selecting it and pressing the right mouse button. 1.20 05-08-92 Added Color to Line Styles and Fill Patterns. Added Arrowhead Style options. Can now add Raster Font text objects in zoom modes less than 100%. 1.21 05-28-92 Added Constrain mode for drawing and resizing objects. Added Printer Selection from File Menu. Added Selectable drawing sizes. Can View Clipboard from Edit Menu (see Help on General Topics for extensive hints on transferring drawings to other applications using the Clipboard). Significant improvements in selection logic: Transparent objects can now be selected only by pointing at their boundaries (this helps a lot when trying to select objects underneath). Also, Arcs and Open Polygons are now selected similar to Lines (i.e. you must point at the line) and you must be inside the boundary of a filled object to select it (even irregularly shaped objects like Closed Polygons). If you were ever irritated by selecting a Chord or Polygon when you didn't want to, this will fix it. 1.30 09-23-92 Took the summer off, so its been a few months. This version substitutes True Type fonts for the old Raster fonts for people running Windows 3.1. Added the Wingdings font which comes with Windows 3.1. All fonts are now rotatable about themselves. All fonts can now be scaled by dragging a corner of the selection box. Added "Open as Library" and "Insert from Library" features, which are great for creating your own drawing parts. Switches to a crosshair cursor when a Drawing Tool is selected. After drawing an object, KwikDraw now reverts to the Pointer tool with the Object automatically selected - unless you double-click or use the right button when selecting the drawing tool, in which case that tool stays selected. Added user-defineable drawing sizes and grid spacing. 1.31 10-13-92 Fixed bug resizing vertical text in True Type Fonts. 1.32 11-11-92 Selecting dashed lines is now much easier. A filename may be passed to KwikDraw on the command line. This means that you can associated "*.kwk" files with kwikdraw.exe in the File Manager and run KwikDraw by double clicking the file. 1.33 11-27-92 Sorry, version 1.32 introduced a bug in the selection box, this version corrects it. Open File could sometimes overwrite an Open Library - this has been corrected. In edit curve mode, selecting multiple curves could sometimes cause variation in the selection dots - this has been corrected. A line with an arrowhead may now be safely reduced to 0 length. Selection dots no longer cancel each other if you reduce the dimension of a selected object to zero. 1.34 12-30-92 Solid Lines may now be created with width 0. This means that they appear as a hairline width (1 pixel) at any zoom level. When selecting with the selection box, the window onto the drawing surface will now auto-scroll when your mouse cursor moves outside the KwikDraw window. This auto-scroll only occurs during selection. Let me know if you would like to see it during drawing and moving modes as well! Occasional drop-out of grid dots while scrolling has been cured. Opening the "File" Menu with no longer requires an extra carriage return. The "Exit" option hotkey has been changed from "E" to "X," in order to conform with what appears to be the de-facto standard. The default filename on the "Save As" dialog has been changed to the current filename (so be careful if you intended to change the name before saving). 1.35 03-06-93 Duplicating rotated text was unrotating the text - this is fixed. 1.40 06-30-93 Added Spline Curve Objects. Added Conversions Menu. The "Improved Selection Logic" (see 5-28-92) was not working with some graphics adapters in 256 color mode. If you had this problem (which you may not have noticed) then this version should fix it. Added Show Coordinates option. Added Object Description Associations and Object Description Output (this is handy for generating parts lists - see landscp2.kwk). Zooming will now center any selected object. Del key as well as Bksp may now be used to delete objects. Other keyboard accelerators have been added. KwikDraw will now "remember" object displacements for subsequent Duplicate Object operations. "Edit Poly (or Spline)" and "Extend Curve" modes are now on by default because people were unaware that these capabilities existed. Polygons now support up to 128 points. 1.41 09-24-93 Print menu now allows multiple copies to be specified. Auto-displacement on duplicate will no longer allow you to propagate objects off the drawing area. Double-click no longer brings up the object description editor - only the right mouse button will do this. 1.42 12-08-93 KwikDraw was not recovering well when it ran out of memory: These problems have been corrected. If you max out on memory and get a file save error message, then delete 10-12 objects and try the save again. Please note that KwikDraw is currently limited to 64 kbytes of memory for storing objects. If your file size is over 46 kbytes then you are close to the limit. However, KwikDraw is very memory efficient, and you can draw A LOT within 64 kbytes (see some of the example files to get an idea - they aren't close to the limit). The memory space will be expanded in the next release. 2.00 08-12-94 Sorry this took so long, schoolwork has kept me busy lately. With this version, KwikDraw will use as much memory as Windows will allow, which is usually close to your virtual memory limit (even more than your physical memory). Added a closed spline object (can't take a fill pattern yet). KwikDraw no longer defaults to the filename "noname.kwk" for new drawings - it FORCES you to choose a filename when you save. After closing a library, the "Save As" option no longer defaults to the library name (which could have caused you to overwrite the library if you weren't careful). The "Save As" option no longer defaults to the current filename. The edit box for object descriptions now has a different caption than the edit box for text objects. 2.01 08-23-94 Whoops, with version 2.00 menu driven changes to text objects did not result in an immediate redraw. This was fixed.