[Xastir] Draw CAD Objects

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:56:18PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <dlmarti at kc2lcf.net> flavor, containing:
> Is Draw CAD Object implemented?
> I can't find documentation on it, and no amount of playing produces
> anything.

There is a basic cad object functionality implemented by Curt a while back.  
You can draw polygons.

Right-click on "Start Draw Mode".  MIDDLE-CLICK (or chord-click) to set 
a vertex.  Right click on "Close Polygon" to close the polygon you're currently
drawing.  Right click on "End Draw Mode" when you're done drawing all your
polygons.

The polygons will persist across restarts of xastir.  The intended use of
this feature was for drawing segmented search areas in SAR work.

I had planned to revamp that to make it have more "draw-y" functions, but
have been unable to get a sufficient number of round tuits, and the thing I
wanted to do with such a feature seems easier to do by having some external
program generate shapefiles for me.

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