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GINO Graphics/GUI suite

GINO v7.0 PRODUCT SUMMARY

GINO is a suite of graphics and GUI development tools aimed at scientific/engineering applications and contains over 900 routines available with an F90, C, Visual Basic, Delphi or .NET binding. As well as containing the more common graphing features such as line graphs, charts, contour maps and 3D surfaces, GINO includes an optional programmable GUI interface (GINOMENU) and an optional RAD GUI development tool (GINOMENU Studio) for rapid Fortran application development. GINO features fully integrated OpenGL functionality including facets, lighting, shading and texture-mapping for developing state-of-the-art 3D models. GINO runs under Windows, OpenVMS, Linux and UNIX.

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	GINO is a programmable toolkit providing over 450 routines and functions for developing professional 2D and 3D graphics applications. The library includes functionality from basic line drawing, fonts, polygons and images to full 3D OpenGL features such as facets, bezier surfaces, lighting, shading and texture-mapping. Metafile input/output includes DXF, JPEG, PNG, ICO, BMP, CGM, Postscript and WMF. Full Description
	GINOMENU is a Fortran90/C++ toolkit for developing GUI applications under Windows. It provides extensive window and widget building modules in an easy to use format without the need to get involved in resource files, MFC or direct Windows programming. Full integration with all the high level graphics facilities featured in the other GINO packages is provided. Full Description
	GINOGRAF is a programmable toolkit for the display of 2D data in any popular charting format including block filled bar, step and area charts, X-Y graphs, population graphs, text charts and vector diagrams. Emphasis on scientific/engineering formats are provided such as logarithm plots, engineering units, cubic, spline and akima curve drawing, annotation powers and prefixes, multiple scales on same axis, and multiple axes. Full Description
	GINOSURF is a programmable toolkit enabling 3D data visualization in the form of contour maps, X-sections and surfaces with full hidden-line removal. Data can be in the form of random data or gridded data and then is interpolated onto a rectangular grid or triangular network. Faults, Breaklines, overlayed polylines and 4D data sets are catered for and features include contour extraction, cut and fill calculations and DXF polymesh import. Full Description
	GINOMENU Studio is an interactive GUI builder and development environment for Fortran and C programmers. Developers can create a graphical user-interface by drag-and-drop methodology with the amount of actual programming kept to a bare minimum. Access to the other GINO libraries is provided via on-line help, automated code-assist pop-ups and colour syntax-highlighted code enabling the developer to create a complex graphics and GUI application all within a RAD environment. Full Description

Highlights:

Available for Fortran, C/C++, Delphi, VB and .NET - See platform availability
Platform availability includes Windows, Linux, UNIX and OpenVMS
Create simple line drawings, simple GUI interfaces or complex 3D interactive visualizations
Context-sensitive online help available from all popular IDE's including Developer Studio, Visual Studio, Visual Studio.NET, Borland C++ Builder, Delphi and GINO's own IDE; GINOMENU Studio
Import and Export all major image and metafile formats
No run-time fees for Applications built under Windows or Linux

Feature	GINO GUI Edition	GINO Standard Edition	GINO Developer Edition	GINO Professional Edition	GINO Enterprise Edition
GINO (base 2D/3D toolkit)	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
GINOMENU (GUI library)	YES	YES	NO	YES	YES
GINOGRAF (2D graphing)	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES
GINOSURF (3D surface/contouring)	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES
GINOMENU Studio (GUI RAD tool)	YES	YES	NO	NO	YES

New Features

v7.0 v6.5 v6.0 v5.5

GINO v7.0


Routines, Defined constants and Optional arguments using the words: Dialogue, Centre, Colour and Grey are now provided with their American spelling equivalents. The GINO config, message and font files may now be placed in the system path as an alternative to using GINO environment variable.
Drawing Objects gDrawEllipse2D gDrawArrow2D gDrawArrow3D Number/String handling gConvertIntegerZero gConvertRealPower gConvertRealScientific gDisplayIntegerZero gDisplayRealPower gDisplayRealScientific Hardware Fonts gEnqCharFontName gEnqCharSet gEnqFontNameList gSetCharFontName gSetCharSet gSetPointChars DXF Importing gCloseDXFFile gEnqDXFEntities gEnqDXFLimits gEnqDXFLayers gGetDXFFile gGetNextDXFEntity gImportDXFSurface gOpenDXFFile Other utilities gWoglm gPutImageFile gKillSysCommand gSetErrorFilename gEnqLineWidthPixel gSetLineWidthPixel	Draws a 2D ellipse Draws an open/closed/filled arrow in 2D space Draws an open/closed/filled arrow in 3D space Converts an integer to its equivalent right-justified string Converts a real number to its equivalent string with raised power Converts a real number to its equivalent string in scientific format Displays a right-justified integer with optional zero padding Displays a real number with a raised power value Displays a real number with mantissa between 1.0 and 10.0 Returns the currently selected character font name Returns the current character/language set Returns a list of available font names on the current device Sets the current hardware character font by name Sets the current hardware character/language set Sets the current character mode to hardware 'point size' mode Closes the currently open DXF file Returns the entity count of a DXF file Returns the graphical extent of a DXF file Returns the list of layer names in a DXF file Reads one or all the layers from a DXF file and displays them Returns the details of the next entity Returns a set of vertices and triangles representing a surface mesh Opens a DXF file ready for interpreting data Generate a BMP/JPG/PNG file containing OpenGL graphics Creates a metafile from data stored in pixbuf Terminate a background process Direct error messages to a particular file Enquires the current line width in pixels Sets the current line width in pixels

GINOGRAF v7.0

New Features	Three new routines have been added to implement a colour scaling facility. Any line, curve or symbol graph can be drawn with a graduated colour along the X or Y axis together with an optional colour bar as a key.
New Routines	ggDrawColourScale ggEnqColourScale ggSetColourScale	Displays a graduated colour bar Returns the current colour scaling settings Sets a colour scaling for 2D graph components

GINOSURF v7.0

New Features	Extend the new cut and fill functionality added last release with facilities to generate a complete cut and fill area by adding spot heights, break lines and site boundaries to create a second surface within an existing surface. Surface area, volume and maximum height between the two surfaces can then be calculated. Contour data can now be enquired directly from the gridded data without having to draw the contours first. Vertical fault lines can now be added to a surface allowing vertical discontinuity between two heights whereby the area between is ignored when calculating the surface to display. New optional arguments have been added to the routine gsSetContourLevels() to allow the specification of pre and post-fix strings to annotation of contour heights. The routine gImportDXFSurface() has been added to the GINO library to import polymesh surface data from a DXF file. The data returned is in a format ready to pass to gsImportTriangulationNetwork() ready for surface display. Cross Sections may now be drawn directly from gridded or triangulated workspaces without the need to draw a contour map or surface first.
New Routines	gsGenerateContourDataSet gsGenerateCutandFillSurface gsReturnVolumeBetweenSurfaces gsGenerateRandomGrid4D gsReturnRangeInfo gsStoreGrid gsStoreGrid4D gsSetApectRatioScalingSwitch gsAddFaultLines gsSelectDataSet	Returns 2D contour data relating to a particular height Calculates and Displays information relating to 3D cut and fill Returns surface areas and volumes between two surfaces Generates a grid from random data with two sets of heights Returns the data range information that is used internally Stores gridded data in workspace to be used by other routines Stores 4D gridded data to be used by other routines Controls whether triangulation is restricted to a unit square Add one or more fault lines into an existing 3D surface Selects the 1st or 2nd data set that has previously been stored

GINOMENU v7.0

A new widget type has been added in this release which is the spinner or up-down control. It can be associated with a value entry for directly controlling the value.
RTF text entries have been enhanced with the ability of providing HyperText link callbacks. A user can now click or double-click on a string that has been assigned a hypertext font attribute which will then generate a hypertext link callback.
For Windows XP users, documentation has been added to explain how to utilize the current XP theme and mouse-sensitive widgets with the appropriate initialization being carried out in the GINOMENU DLL.
In the area of callbacks, a new routine is provided to check the callback queue for particular types of callbacks and greater control of windows messages is provided with the ability to trap messages that are not being used by GINOMENU. The resizing of floating docking panes is now permitted in two directions by selecting one of the four corners of the widget. A new optional property, gmTabList is provided to add or remove a widget from the tab list. For Array Grid widgets gmTabAction has been added to provided three modes of action for the TAB key within this widget. Two routines have been added to enable an enquiry and import of data from an internal bitmap resource (i.e.. Bitmap, icon or cursor). The data can then be used by the GINO routines gDrawPixelArea or gDrawCellArray.
gmCheckCallback gmCreateSpinner gmDefineEscapeCallback gmDefineLinkCallback gmEnqArrayGridReturnAction gmEnqEscapeCallbacks gmEnqPanePos gmEnqResourceImageInfo gmEnqTimerCallbacks gmGetResourceImageData gmGetWidgetHandle gmSetArrayGridReturnAction gmSetPanePos	Checks the callback queue for a particular callback type Creates a spinner or 'up-down' control for controlling value entries Traps additional windows messages for a particular widget class Defines a HyperText link callback to a RTF widget Enquires the action of the <CR> key within array grids Enquires the windows messages that are being trapped Enquires the mode, position and size of a docking pane Enquires the size, no. of bits and colours of an internal resource Returns the list of currently assigned timer callbacks Converts image data from a resource into a GINO array Returns a widget handle for use with Windows API routines Sets the action of the <CR> key within array grids Sets the mode, position and size of a docking pane

GINOMENU Studio v7.0

A new horizontal and vertical widget alignment facility is now available following the selection of multiple widgets on any form.

The Code Editor can now be on permanent display (depending on its state) enabling quicker updating of code with fewer key-clicks. It now incorporates a list of all current widget names and menu-entry names via a tabbed panel and combo boxes allowing quicker code selection between different code blocks.

The initial display of Studio now makes use of Docking Panes for the Properties, Hierarchy, Code Editor and Compiler Log windows. These can be docked, re-sized, floated or made invisible.
A new widget type; Docking Pane can now be added to the design of the application
A Source Code viewer has been added for read-only editing of the complete generated code. This can be useful when making global changes to identify which code blocks changes need to be made in.
A new 'Duplicate Widget' (Ctrl D) option has been added to speed-up the copying and pasting of a widget or group on to the same form.
A new 'Print Errors' option has been added to the menu bar to enable the printing of compiler/linker errors.
For Windows XP users, automatic generation of Windows manifest file for each project to utilize the current XP theme and mouse-sensitive widgets.
New properties added to widgets in the new version of GINOMENU have been included for the same widgets in Studio, including:
- HyperText link callbacks for RTF entries
- AutoURL for RTF entries
- Tab Action and Read-only option for text and value arrays
- Tab List option to all appropriate widgets

GINO V6.5

New Features	Nine new routines have been added to utilize the facilities of the Windows Registry within a GINO application. Routines have been added to read, write and enquire both keys and values in a simple to use way. There is also a routine to enquire the currently assigned application associated with a file extension on the system.
New Routines	gCloseDrawingFiles gCreateRegistryKey gCreateRegistryValue gDeleteRegistryKey gDeleteRegistryValue gEnqRegistryKeyInfo gEnqRegistryValue gGetFileAssociation gReturnRegistryKeys gReturnRegistryValues	Closes files and buffers used by gGetDrawing or gGetPicture Creates a new subkey in the Windows Registry Creates a new data value in the Windows Registry Deletes a key from the Windows Registry Deletes a data value from the Windows Registry Returns information pertaining to a Windows Registry key Returns the type and string or data setting of a Windows Registry key Returns the registered application pathname associated with a file extension Returns list of subkeys under a Windows Registry key Returns list of values under a Windows Registry key

GINOGRAF v6.5

New Features	Two new routines have been added to implement a chart component identification feature using GINO segments. This allows discrete bars, columns and pie chart segments to be identified by segment number where required.
New Routines	ggEnqChartSegments ggSetChartSegments	Returns the current chart segment id offset Defines the chart segment id offset

GINOSURF v6.5

New Features	Thirteen new routines have been added to this library, four of which provide enquiry functions for information that was difficult or impossible to obtain in previous releases. In the light of problems with the addition of break-lines into existing surfaces, two new routines have been added to generate 3D and 4D constrained triangulation networks composed of free data points, break-lines and excluded regions all in the one call. There are more controls over the style of contour map and cross-sections axes and the ability to define the projection of a polyline cross-section to be aligned along the X (or Y) axis direction as well as the current distance. In a new area of GINOSURF functionality, there are three routines which utilize the knowledge of the supplied data to calculate approximations for the area and volume data associated with a cross-section or surface. In addition, a fourth routine estimates cut-and-fill values for a 3D polyline traversing across a surface.
New Routines	gsEnqContourAxesLimits gsEnqContourLevels gsEnqCrossSectionAxesLimits gsEnqSurfaceAxesLimits(limits) gsGenerateConstrainedNetwork gsGenerateConstrainedNetwork4D gsPolylineCutandFill gsReturnCrossSectionArea gsReturnSurfaceArea gsReturnSurfaceVolume gsSetContourMapAxesStyle gsSetCrossSectionAxesStyle gsSetPolylineCrossSectionProj	Returns current contour map axes limits Returns current contour levels and linestyles Returns current cross section axes type and limits Returns current surface plot axes limits Computes a triangulated network using data, breaklines and regions Computes a 4D triangulated network Calculates areas of cur and fill between current surface and polyline Calculates the areas above and below base line on cross section Calculates area of current surface plot Calculates volume above and below base line in surface plot Sets style of contour plot axes Sets style of cross section plot axes Sets the projection of a polyline cross section

GINOMENU V6.5

	17 new routines and 13 new optional arguments have been added to the library, with 8 existing optional arguments adding new facilities to existing routines:
	A new widget type has been added in this release and that is the powerful docking pane. This is a container widget which can hold several types of children which are automatically expanded to fit the pane. The pane can then be attached to the side of a window or made to float in a similar manner to the toolbar widget.
	Value entries have been enhanced with new input controls and error checking facilities and the contents of both value cells and value entries can be cleared if required (without 0.0) through two new routines.
	Various enhancements have been mode to array grids, including new colour control, font attributes and border type change callbacks combo box button display TAB control use of rogue values in value cells A new optional argument gmCount has been added to the add/remove row/column routine allowing for more efficient multiple operations in one call.
	Bubble help facilities have been extended to add justification of multi-line tool-tip messages as well as inhibiting the display of all bubble help with one switch.
New Features	RTF text entries have been enhanced with multi-level undo features routine to prevent OLE inserts routine to buffer up application changes to prevent flashing routines to extract the currently pointed to word and any specified text without having to select it first Single line RTF entries are now also permitted. Colour syntax highlighting for numbers
	In the area of callbacks, a new routine is provided to flush the callback queue, should that be required by an application and a routine has been added to generate (post) callbacks from application control as if the user had carried out an action on the display. Addition of File Drop callback to MDI Master windows Addition of double-click callback to tree view entries Justification of button labels Read-only property for text, tty and value entries Addition of quit mode for tool bar widgets
New Routines	gmClearArrayCell gmClearValueEntry gmCreateDockingPane gmDefineValueErrorCallback gmEnqAppDirSwitch gmEnqBubbleHelpSwitch gmEnqEntrySelectionMode gmEnqWidgetStatus gmExtractText gmExtractWord gmFlushCallbackQueue gmFreezeRTFChanges gmImportWMFFile gmPostCallback gmSetAppDirSwitch gmSetBubbleHelpSwitch gmSetEntrySelectionMode	Clears an array grid cell of its contents Clears a value entry of its contents Creates a docking pane either floating or docked to window edge Defines a value error callback activated on illegal values Returns setting of browser directory switch Returns setting of global bubble help display switch Returns setting of global entry selection mode (single/double) Gets widget display status Extracts string from text widget Extracts word from text widget Flushes callback queue of any outstanding callbacks Sets switch to freeze/unfreeze changes to RTF widget Imports a WMF/EMF metafile into a graphics frame Posts an application defined callback into the callback queue Sets global application browser directory switch Sets global switch for display of bubble help Sets global switch for single/double selection of widgets

GINOMENU Studio 5.0

User Code Editor/Callback Editor

The User Code Editor and Callback Editor have been merged into one Editor. This saves time when moving from user code to callback code which can now be done just by selecting a different code block from the pull-down combo-box.
A new code block entitled 'Global Routines' has been added to allow the addition of routines to the project module or global block. This can be more efficient than placing them in the 'User Routines' section.
F1 Help can now access routines from all GINO libraries, not just GINOMENU.
The Editor now keeps a track of the current line and character number and displays this in the status bar
The Editor now provides a 'Code-Assist' popup window when adding GINO routines, assisting in the placement of arguments by giving the number and type of each argument required.
The Find and Replace dialogue works more intuitively and contains combo lists of previous find and replace strings.
Multi-level Undo is now available as well as Undo and Redo in the Find/Replace dialog.
<ctrl>W can be used as a hot-key to bring up the list of current widgets available to use in the Editor

GUI Designer

A toolbar separator widget has been added into the tool box.
Undo and redo options are now available for widget movement and resize
Icon resources can be added to menu entries, tree view entries and combo box and list box entries through new options in their respective editor dialogues

Widget Properties

All new properties added to widgets in the new version of GINOMENU have been included for the same widgets in Studio, including:
- Quit mode for Toolbars
- Label alignment in (user defined) buttons and bubble help
- Read-only option for text, tty and value entries
- Border type, colours and border line types for text and value arrays
- OLE insertion control for RTF text widgets
- Double click callback for tree view entries
- File drop callback for master MDI forms
- Value error callback for value entries
- GTOP option for initial state for windows

Housekeeping

The Options - Preferences menu has been reworked to provide auto-backup and project/code synchronization
The snap grid setting dialogue has been moved from the preferences dialogue to the project settings dialogue as the setting applies to the currently opened project only.
Other dialogues have been improved with the Menu Editor now providing automatic generation of menu entry identifier names.
The Widget Tab Order dialogue is now resizable and allows for the re-ordering of multiple widgets in one action.
Additional hot-keys have been added to improve development speed. These include Esc to close many windows, Ctrl Y and Z for redo and undo actions

GINO 6.0

New Drawing Routines and Functionality

A small number of enhancements have been added to the GINO library at this release.

Object Complexity

Object complexity options have been added for the box and cube objects allowing more accurate lighting and texturing of large objects of this type.

External Process Control

The routine gExecuteSysCommand has been extended to include optional arguments specifying if the GINO application is to be suspended or run in parallel with the new process as well as returning its handle if appropriate.

Curve Interpolation

Two routines have been added to interpolate values given a supplied set of 2D or 3D data points. These can be passed from the internal point storage mechanism allowing for accurate interpolation of GINO curves.

Postscript Export

An option in the generation of Postscript files (through gEpsexp) has been added to place the correct bounding box in the header of the generated file (rather than at the end). This option requires post processing the postscript file and so incurs a time penalty but the resulting file better suits some import filters.

GINOGRAF v6.0

General bug fix release

GINOSURF v6.0

Most of the improvements in the GINOSURF library occur in connection with the triangulation data routines, as it is here where the greatest functionality now exists within this library. Surface and contour maps with excluded regions and irregular boundaries can all be handled using random data that has been triangulated into a linked network.

GINOMENU v6.0 - New Features

A large and varied range of enhancements have been added to this library again in this release. Whilst no specific new widget types have been added, the facilities within many widget types have been extended in either their functionality and/or their display features. In order to make best use of several newer facilities in the Windows API, some facilities in GINOMENU are not available in earlier Windows environments (primarily Windows 95 and Windows NT). These are listed below under the various sub-headings.

GINOMENU Studio v4.0

The new release of GINOMENU Studio (version 4.0) contains many improvements on the current release enhancing its features as a GUI production tool for Fortran and C programmers.

GINO-F v5.5 (19 new routines)

New Drawing Routines

2D and 3D Bezier Curves
Bezier curve elevation and reduction
3D Spline surface
OpenGL planar shadows
Shaded polylines
View matrix modification
Postscript window dumps
Gouraud shading of textured facets

Other New v5.5 Features

Mouse wheel event handling
File and directory handling system routines

GINOGRAF v5.5

Documentation updated
Bug fixes

GINOSURF v5.5

Display of triangular net on a surface
Perspective projection with supplied workspace
Filled Triangulated contours and surfaces
Shading key position and size definition
Surface line shading is now switchable

GINOMENU v5.5 - New Features (35 new routines)
Property List The property list is a two column scrollable list to be used for changing or displaying properties of objects within your application. Properties can be added, removed and edited by the user. The contents of each property can be text, combo boxes or numerical values. In addition, the property can be an HTML style colour hex string.
Calendar Widget This widget allows the selection of a valid date using the standard Windows month view widget.
Other Features and Enhancements Double Click Callback Key Select Callback Widget tab sequence reordering Printer Properties Page Setup control Tree view file and directory browser RTF find and replace text RTF Page breaks RTF superscript, subscript, page break and justification Resource file string access Floating Tool bar position and size enquiry and setting Table box column removal Interactive widget moving and resizing Tracking position control Selected text enquiry Toolbox style window titles Mouse Wheel control
GINOMENU Studio v3.0
New look and feel Automatically generate C/C++ code as well as F77 & F90 Fully integerated with Fortran or C compiler Compilation errors hot-clickable with auto-jumping to offending code New objects such as Gauges, Progress Bars, TTY Windows Full support for MDI applications Group selection/editing of widgets Variable snap-to-Grid selection User preferences including default style of all objects Enhanced Project Options for reading-in own code blocks Form save option for re-using in other Projects Tree-view Object hierarchy for improved Project management Find and Replace dialogs in Code and Callback Editors Context-sensitive F1 Help in all dialogs

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