Pad++ Pad++ is a general-purpose substrate for creating and interacting with structured information based on a zoomable interface. It adds scale as a first class parameter to all items, as well as various mechanisms for navigating through a multiscale space. It has several efficiency mechanisms which help maintain interactive frame-rates with large and complicated graphical scenes. While Pad++ is not an application itself, it directly supports creation and manipulation of multiscale graphical objects, and navigation through spaces of these objects. It is implemented as a widget in Tcl/Tk which provides an interpreted scripting language for creating zoomable applications. The standard objects that Pad++ supports are colored text, graphics, images, portals, and hypertext markup language (HTML). Standard input widgets (buttons, sliders, etc.) are supplied as extensions.

Current Version:   0.9p1 License Type:   Free for Non-Commercial Use

Home Site: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pad++/ Source Code Availability:   Yes (register online and download it) Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: Unix (tested on Linux/Intel, SGI, SunOS and Solaris), Windows 95/NT (early port) Software/Hardware Requirements: Pad++ consists of C++ code implementing a Tcl/Tk Pad++ widget, and also Tcl code that implements the zoomable draw application.

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