Description

The Spatial Hypertext Manager (SpaceMan) is a Sproc that serves spatial hypertext abstractions. It provides clients two abstractions: visual object and space. Visual objects are arbitrary StructBase objects that have an (x,y) position in a space, a width, a height, and a visual style. Spaces are contentless objects with one attribute named space name.

The primary function of the SpaceMan is to call the spatial parse behavior, which is currently compiled into the spatial parser.

Documentation

• SpaceMan Programmer's Guide scheduled for release late June 1997
• SpaceMan Reference Guide scheduled for release late June 1997
  

Software Releases

Current release: SpaceMan-1.0.0 [1997.06.02]

Software requirements:
base component: H-4.2.1+; SIM-1.0.1+; PDC-3.1.0+; GPT-1.1.1+; SB-1.0.0+;
extensions: none
behaviors: none
documentation: HDC-4.0.0+.
Distributions:
Note: There are two versions of the SpaceMan. The public versions do not include the spatial parser source. The internal versions do contain this source, but are only accessible from machines on the CSDL subnet.

These are currently only accessible from on machines on the CSDL subnet. They should become publicly available by 16 June 1997. Thanks.
SpaceMan-1.0.0 (internal) source (23K)
SpaceMan-1.0.0 (internal) prebuilt for Sparc/Solaris 2.4 (322K)


Scheduled next release: SpaceMan-1.1.0 [1997.06.16]

Change log:

SpaceMan-1.0.0 [1997.06.02] - initial release


Applications:

Analyzer.1.0.0+

Installation Instructions

To install SpaceMan, follow the generic installation directions found on the general HOSS software information page. Note the the include file link step must be performed for this component.

Problems

This section contains a list of known bugs, problems, and missing features. If you would like to report a bug, mail hadmin@csdl.tamu.edu.

The problems listed here refer to the current version of SpaceMan, 1.0.0 [1997.06.02].

• memory leaks (pnuern@csdl.tamu.edu)
  
• save and retrieve space calls don't work properly (pnuern@csdl.tamu.edu)
  
• should split out spatial parser behavior (pnuern@csdl.tamu.edu)