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by watersb 1635 days ago
"Hyper-Structured Graphics" --

This was new to me, thanks!

Essentially, hyperlinks for shapes; any graphic element can be linked to another, including other drawings (documents) or sections of a document.

I suppose that's obvious these days. Hyperlinks are expected.

I know that Visio (Windows) and OmniGraffle (MacOS) can do this. I would build active computer network diagrams, dashboards: you could click on a computer's graphic and get an SNMP report.

SNMP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Pr...

https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/visio/flowchar...

I think MacDraw did links, too. HyperCard, sure.

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Great, thanks for the info! I used Tgif for exactly that, designing SNMP monitoring with network maps/dashboard like pages. Forgot exactly which combinations I implemented, but it envolved Tgif, Tkined [0], Scotty [1], Big Brother [2] and later Netsaint [3] (now known as Nagios).

[0] https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/tkined/welcome.html.... [1] https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/scotty/tcl+snmp.html [2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2225 [3] http://netsaint.sourceforge.net/