--/indigo/chipndale/documentation/cd11.tioga
--Ch. Jacobi   February 1, 1984 10:33 am

Chipndale Version 0.11 Updates

Definition modules
CD
New concept of exporting a Graphics.Context in the DrawRecord's
replaces procedure field DrawSome and DrawText 
CDTechnology
Separate ColorBricks for any bit per pixel number (1,4,8) 
CDViewer
ViewersOf ' s design parameter is of type REF ANY, to additionally allow 
using a technology
CDTexts
Font representation is redesigned
Text are in some level (Text are not signalname's)
New procedures to install and query for fonts
TokenIO
Error message of type Rope.ROPE instead of REF ANY 

Implementation
CDTextsImpl
uses new Context feature to implement drawing texts
font information may be put on .dale files
VImplDraw
all procedure handling texts are removed
Several small bugs replaced by a smaller number of new bugs

Commands
All executive commands start with CD...
readnmos is renamed to [CDReadCMNMos] --where CM stands for ChipMonk
readcmos is renamed to [CDReadCMCMos]
New command to read in patterns from chipmonk pattern files [CDPattern] (cmos only)
New command to read in colormaps from chipmonk colormap files [CDColorMap]
Enhanced command [CDColor]
Plotting now must be explicitely enabled (again) by 
including "Chipndale.RunPrograms: VPlot.bcd" into the userprofile
or by running VPlot from the user executive.
The select command gives more feedback

CMos
four kinds of diffusion in control panel
contacts and transistors get diffusion from current level selection

NMos
Text commands are temporary disabled, until we know which fonts will be
supported in nmos.  (This protects design files against using wrong fonts). 

User profile
see /indigo/chipndale/documentation/Chipndale11.profile 
options for popup menu
options for initialization of colordisplay
options for selection of chipmonk pattern files
options for selection of chipmonk colormap files
options to start further programs


Documentation
to see what is available, look on /indigo/chipndale/top/cddoc.df

Release strategy
df files
/indigo/chipndale/top/cddoc.df        (documentation)
/indigo/chipndale/top/cddesign.df    (designers features)
are version independent and bring over the actual version.
df files   /indigo/chipndale/top/...
cd11, nmos11, cmos11, cornerstitching11, vplot11,...
analysis10, maskgen10,...
contain a version number in their name, but are used only by programmers.