This guide outlines the options available to a programmer writing an ADAM applications program who wishes to incorporate graphics into the program and describes the routines that handle the necessary interaction with the ADAM parameter system when a graphics device is opened for a GKS based graphics package.
Where a suite of graphics programs are being written or where a program is to interact with graphics produced by another package (e.g. KAPPA), the Applications Graphics Interface (AGI—SUN/48) should be used. AGI provides facilities for storing and restoring information about pictures such as extent and world coordinates. AGI is layered on top of the routines described in this document.