On Aug 26, 2006, at 5:35 PM, CV wrote:
5. Implement a user coordinate definition feature as in VB, ie., a ScaleMode property for Canvas and ContainerControl(perhaps) providing ScaleX, ScaleY properties that are a major convenience in graphing. (rrbrwmut)
Something like this would be a spectacular feature for me. I don't know precisely how ScaleMode is implemented in VB. I do remember terrific set of graphics features in a very old HP computer series, the series 80 from the early 1980s. These were, in fact, early microcomputers aimed at scientists and engineers. They had convenience operators such as scale, and also "axes" that let you put up axes with tic marks. (As I remember, for the series 80 you could buy plug-in ram chips that extended the language with matrix commands, etc).
Returning to the topic at hand, although the canvas object is very powerful, I have found it very tough to produce attractive, flexible graphs. Graphing convenience operators would be a tremendous boon.
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