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Getting a user-specified point

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Getting a user-specified point

- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're gonna focus on the editor input namespace. Now, we've already started using this namespace as we've worked with the editor. We've written messages, using the command line, and taken advantage of the drawing documents editor object to do so. Now, we've added that namespace as one we're using, or to the using statement, at the top of our initialization class. But what we're really gonna do is focus in on how this chapter, how the editor input namespace is going to help us interact with the user. How we're going to get information from the user, not just tell the user information, but get information from them. Now, to get any information from the user, it's best, before we ask the user, we set up some parameters, some controls of what we expect from the user, or how we're going to get control of the information we get from the user. So, let's go ahead and go into our exercise and see how, really, the options, the parameters, so to speak, of getting…

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