Metagraf's Objects - 1

Introduction.-


In Metagraf , a drawing is composed of shapes or objects. Owing to the Java Tool used, this seems reasonable. An object has his intrinsic properties -a polygon will be always a polygon- and the special attributes of this object -color, filled or not, thickness of lines, shape...and so on.

As there are quite a lot of objects, they have been divided into two "subcategories" to simplify the approach, length of menus, explanations etc. So, there are two basic types of objects: those there are open -without enclosing an area- and the opposite, the closed objects. This simple division leads to the conclusion that the open objects are just open lines.

As another special category, we have the different objects related with text, but those are a little bit of a different nature and need more specific explanations.

In what follows there will be presented the totality of objects available in Metagraf and some of its principal characteristic. In next chapters there will be explained the way to "deal" with the different objects: how to create them, how to modify -or edit-  them: rotate, scale...etc.

 It will not be a complete coverage of each item, uninteresting for the great majority of users, but a simple description of its characteristic and properties.


Madrid, January 2006