GINO's latest driver is for generating animated graphics on the web using Adobe Flash (SWF).

Adobe's SWF file format is used for creating animations or movies within web pages. The Adobe Flash plugin is required to display these files, but Adobe now estimate that the plugin has coverage of over 90% of internet users in the 'mature markets'.
There are a number of tools available for creating these animations, the best known being the 'Flash' product available from Adobe, however most of these tools are aimed at 'arty' graphics.

With the introduction of the SWF driver in v7.5, GINO developers can now output high quality vector drawings to the web either as static images or converted to animations with very little effort.

The SWF file format has some built-in interaction which can be accessed by the user right-clicking on the image. This shows a menu giving controls for zooming, stopping, playing or rewinding the movie. Alternatively, by writing a small amount of javascript, the web-developer can provide similar interaction linked to buttons or images as shown here.

• 2D 및 3D DXF 파일 입력

• 윈도우 폰트 이름에 접근 가능. GINO의 축척비율과 관계없이 Point Size에 의한 크기 선택

• 2D 및 3D 화살표와 3D 타원형

• OpenGL 그래픽 윈도우에서 BMP,JPG,PNG 메타 파일 생성

• Routines, Defined constants and Optional arguments using the words: Dialogue, Centre, Colour and Grey are now provided with their American spelling equivalents.
• The GINO config, message and font files may now be placed in the system path as an alternative to using GINO environment variable.

Draws a 2D ellipse
Draws an open/closed/filled arrow in 2D space
Draws an open/closed/filled arrow in 3D space


Converts an integer to its equivalent right-justified string
Converts a real number to its equivalent string with raised power
Converts a real number to its equivalent string in scientific format
Displays a right-justified integer with optional zero padding
Displays a real number with a raised power value
Displays a real number with mantissa between 1.0 and 10.0


Returns the currently selected character font name
Returns the current character/language set
Returns a list of available font names on the current device
Sets the current hardware character font by name
Sets the current hardware character/language set
Sets the current character mode to hardware 'point size' mode


Closes the currently open DXF file
Returns the entity count of a DXF file
Returns the graphical extent of a DXF file
Returns the list of layer names in a DXF file
Reads one or all the layers from a DXF file and displays them
Returns the details of the next entity
Returns a set of vertices and triangles representing a surface mesh
Opens a DXF file ready for interpreting data


Generate a BMP/JPG/PNG file containing OpenGL graphics
Creates a metafile from data stored in pixbuf
Terminate a background process
Direct error messages to a particular file
Enquires the current line width in pixels
Sets the current line width in pixels

• Three new routines have been added to implement a colour scaling facility. Any line, curve or symbol graph can be drawn with a graduated colour along the X or Y axis together with an optional colour bar as a key.

• Extend the new cut and fill functionality added last release with facilities to generate a complete cut and fill area by adding spot heights, break lines and site boundaries to create a second surface within an existing surface. Surface area, volume and maximum height between the two surfaces can then be calculated.
• Contour data can now be enquired directly from the gridded data without having to draw the contours first.
• Vertical fault lines can now be added to a surface allowing vertical discontinuity between two heights whereby the area between is ignored when calculating the surface to display.
• New optional arguments have been added to the routine gsSetContourLevels() to allow the specification of pre and post-fix strings to annotation of contour heights.
• The routine gImportDXFSurface() has been added to the GINO library to import polymesh surface data from a DXF file. The data returned is in a format ready to pass to gsImportTriangulationNetwork() ready for surface display.
• Cross Sections may now be drawn directly from gridded or triangulated workspaces without the need to draw a contour map or surface first.

• A new widget type has been added in this release which is the spinner or up-down control. It can be associated with a value entry for directly controlling the value.

• RTF text entries have been enhanced with the ability of providing HyperText link callbacks. A user can now click or double-click on a string that has been assigned a hypertext font attribute which will then generate a hypertext link callback.

• For Windows XP users, documentation has been added to explain how to utilize the current XP theme and mouse-sensitive widgets with the appropriate initialization being carried out in the GINOMENU DLL.

• In the area of callbacks, a new routine is provided to check the callback queue for particular types of callbacks and greater control of windows messages is provided with the ability to trap messages that are not being used by GINOMENU.
• The resizing of floating docking panes is now permitted in two directions by selecting one of the four corners of the widget.
• A new optional property, gmTabList is provided to add or remove a widget from the tab list. For Array Grid widgets gmTabAction has been added to provided three modes of action for the TAB key within this widget.
• Two routines have been added to enable an enquiry and import of data from an internal bitmap resource (i.e.. Bitmap, icon or cursor). The data can then be used by the GINO routines gDrawPixelArea or gDrawCellArray.

• A new horizontal and vertical widget alignment facility is now available following the selection of multiple widgets on any form.

• The Code Editor can now be on permanent display (depending on its state) enabling quicker updating of code with fewer key-clicks. It now incorporates a list of all current widget names and menu-entry names via a tabbed panel and combo boxes allowing quicker code selection between different code blocks.

• The initial display of Studio now makes use of Docking Panes for the Properties, Hierarchy, Code Editor and Compiler Log windows. These can be docked, re-sized, floated or made invisible.
• A new widget type; Docking Pane can now be added to the design of the application
• A Source Code viewer has been added for read-only editing of the complete generated code. This can be useful when making global changes to identify which code blocks changes need to be made in.
• A new 'Duplicate Widget' (Ctrl D) option has been added to speed-up the copying and pasting of a widget or group on to the same form.
• A new 'Print Errors' option has been added to the menu bar to enable the printing of compiler/linker errors.
• For Windows XP users, automatic generation of Windows manifest file for each project to utilize the current XP theme and mouse-sensitive widgets.
• New properties added to widgets in the new version of GINOMENU have been included for the same widgets in Studio, including:
  • HyperText link callbacks for RTF entries
  • AutoURL for RTF entries
  • Tab Action and Read-only option for text and value arrays
  • Tab List option to all appropriate widgets