Graphics Editor

Graphics Editor

‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ goes the ancient Chinese proverb. This has become a cliché in our society after the advent of inexpensive and simple techniques for producing pictures.

           

  Computers have become a powerful medium for the rapid and economical production of pictures. There is virtually no area in which graphical displays cannot be used to some advantage. Graphics provide a so natural means of communicating with a computer that they have become widespread. Interactive graphics is the most important means of producing pictures since the invention of photography and television.

       

   The general purpose graphics package provides users with variety of functions for creating and manipulating pictures. Interactivity is implemented by using buttons, which when clicked, using a pointing device such as a mouse, calls the specified function containing the algorithm.

        

 Graphics Editor is a software tool that helps the user to create some painting on the screen to do some operation on it. This is a simple and a user friendly graphics editor based on the Windows platform. It consists of the following basic facilities:

• Geometrical shapes such as straight line, parallel lines, circle, ellipse, spiral, square and rectangle can be drawn.
• Some other features include flood fill, eraser, free hand drawing and text typing.
• A range of colors and patterns has been provided for the user to choose from.

The position of the mouse pointer is shown in the status bar at the bottom of the screen.   In short all the basic features necessary for the graphics editor have been provided. Care is taken to provide an easy-to-use mouse interface involving an icon-based interaction to provide an intuitive feel to our graphics editor. 

Screen Shots

This section gives us an overview of various functions that have been implemented and their respective representation on the output screen .The various functions are explained along with the illustration of using it is as shown below.

A basic output of the editor before implementing any of the tools and the function used to implement it is as shown below.

Snapshot of  Graphics Editor(Default Output screen).

Snapshot of Graphics editor(using various functions).

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