EMUG99: adept - entries - Weininger

adept: new entry points

EuroMug'99, 28 October 1999, Cambridge, UK
Dave Weininger, Daylight CIS, Santa Fe, NM

New entry points in the adept toolkit

These are preliminary and are likely to change before release. All other functionality is polymorphic with existing toolkits.

dt_adept_server	Connect to server (host, service, user). Multiple connections are allowed; each connection provides a separate context.
dt_get_version	return server version string (this might become a string-valued property before release)
dt_get_depictor dt_set_depictor dt_get_renderer dt_set_renderer	Get/set the current depiction/rendering method.
dt_add_depictor dt_zap_depictor dt_add_renderer dt_zap_renderer	Add/remove a depiction/rendering method to/from the server, which must correspond to an existing program object.
dt_get_depiction dt_get_rendition	Get a current depiction/rendition of a given object by the current method.
dt_get_reference dt_set_reference	get/set reference object e.g., some methods allow subsequent depictions to be oriented/highlighted with respect to a reference structure or pattern

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