Author: Felix Liberman

      Visual Perl/Tk editor (canvas edition)

      (by Felix Liberman - FelixL@Rambler.ru)

    This editor can help any unexperienced in programming user to create canvas-based Perl/Tk graphics and embed it to Perl/Tk application.

      0. Disclaimer

    This software distributed FREE under GNU Public License.
    You can visit http://www.gnu.org in order to see details.
    See also Chapter 7 of this document.

      1. Main menu

    All editing functions can be called from main menu:

      2. Toolbar

    Some commonly used actions associated with toolbar buttons.

      3. Keyboard shortcuts

    There are also keyboard shortcuts for main commands:
      Ctrl/Z - Undo
      Ctrl/O - File Open
      Ctrl/S - File Save
        D    - Duplicate
       DEL   - Delete

      4. Mouse

    Mouse functions:

      Left button - select object under cursor
      Left button drag - drag/resize object(s) (if any selected)
      Rignt button drag - select/unselect group of objects

      5. Selection

      There are 3 modes of selection:
      1. Simple single-object selection - select by clicking.
      In this mode user can drag, erase or edit object properties by clicking on respective icon:

      2. Multiple objects selection - stretch area with right button.
      In this mode user can drag all selected objects by mouse or erase/duplicate using menu/toolbar/keyboard

      3. Object points editing - click on selected or on icon
      In this mode user can drag any object point (or resizing bar) or cut segments by clicking on 'scissors' icon

      6. Status bar

      In the bottom of editor window located status bar, displaying ID of currently selected object and modification flag

    NOTE:
    When going back with 'undo' to state before 1st modification
    the flag remain 'dirty' :-(

      7. Some more words from author

      My program developed for "fair use" suggesting that user would not try intentionally damage any data. From my side done all the best in order to supply powerful 'undo' mechanisms for such cases elimination. All bug reports are welcomed and will be served ASAP.

      You can contact me, download updated versions of this program and other software from my site http://felixl.coolpage.biz/download.html