Re: In Search of a Mapping Utility

From: Tim Lomas <tim@antsnest.demon.co.uk>

Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

In article: <4110sj$sji@globe.indirect.com>  kayne@indirect.com (Alex Kayne) writes:

> Thanks for the info.  I'd be interested in seeing STGMap for windows
> when it is available.

Well, it's in early alpha at the moment (I've just junked the first trial after figuring out where I was going wrong and starting again.)

I'm hoping to get it into beta towards the end of the year and ready for release next march (because that's when the next UK PBM convention is due),
when it does go into beta it'll be generally available for testing with the usual caveats. Those dates are very approximate as there's one hell of a lot of
work to do. I've got to enable the stuff which already exists in the DOS version and then add all the new stuff (and there's a lot of it!).

If there's anything in particular you'd like to see in the Windows version feel free to let me know, now's a good time so I can build it in from the start.

New features I'm currently planning are (well, the ones which come to mind), there are more on the list but I don't have it in front of me.

The ability to overlay your map onto a bitmap background

Mobiles (and nested mobiles) whch can be dragged round the map (and notes attached to each mobile)

The ability to cut chunks to the clipboard

Extra rivers, roads and borders (and the ability to draw then from any combination of edges, corners and the centre)

Much larger notes (up to about 32K or 64K for each one)

Tim

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References

In Search of a Mapping Utility
kayne@indirect.com (Alex Kayne)
Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: In Search of a Mapping Utility
kerry@info.ols.us.dell.com (Kerry Harrison)
Mon, 14 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: In Search of a Mapping Utility
kayne@indirect.com (Alex Kayne)
Fri, 18 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

In Search of a Mapping Utility
kayne@indirect.com (Alex Kayne)
Sat, 12 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: In Search of a Mapping Utility
kerry@info.ols.us.dell.com (Kerry Harrison)
Mon, 14 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: In Search of a Mapping Utility
kayne@indirect.com (Alex Kayne)
Fri, 18 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000