December 2003 - Inkscape Devel

crash in hmm dunno
by David Christian Berg 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I have the latest debian package, but dunno what that is... can't you put something in the about dialog, so that I know... I never remember this terminal stuff. Anyways, I get a crash when I try to copy a text with a gradient fill. That is strange on the one hand and annoying on the other. I hope it's an easy to fix or fixed already. David

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math operation in dialogs
by David Christian Berg 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

just wondering if I should file a bug, or if it's so simple that I don't need to. Especially in the guides and the positioning dialog it would be helpful to be able to put mathimatical stuff in there. Imagine you have a guide at 45.6 and want one 7 mm further to the right, you'd just type 45.6+7 and there you go... even more important is something like dividing by 2 or 3, I need that quite often. Btw: Since my laptop was for repair, I used CorelDraw, and I think for basic vector editing and layouting inkscape is by now better than Corel. That is something! Which also brings me to one other thing I'm missing: Baseline Grid. Even for simple flyers and brochures it's nice (or rather necessary) to have. CorelDraw just pissed me of for not having it! I got my laptop back, with working ethernet card, Yeah!! Take care! David

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un-gtkmmification
by MenTaLguY 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Okay, I've removed our gtkmm dependency for now. I did preserve Spark's close confirmation dialog, although I reworked it a little bit to conform to standard Gtk practice. -mental

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windows build anyone?
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Can anyone please compile the latest CVS for Windows so the latest additions could be tested there? I have Windows but no Windows development tools. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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Win32 builds
by Bob Jamison 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Now that the files have been checked into the tree, it has become very easy to build on Win32. I have put a couple of recent builds here: http://troi.lincom-asg.com/~rjamison/inkscape ...along with instructions on how to do it. Please try them out. The main thing I am looking for, is a missing DLL dependency or something like that. Even though I have tried these on other machines, I would still appreciate a 3rd party testing it. Thanks. Bob

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Re: [Sodipodi-list] 
by Jonathan Phillips 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Maybe a warning dialog or a status bar update would be positive to notify the user if a comment is orphaned in someway. I know though this would require some intelligent coding. jon On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 15:17, MenTaLguY wrote: > I guess one thing to think about is how to deal with Sodipodi's > "advertising" comments if comment preservation were added. > > Obviously we wouldn't want to add an advertisment comment to the > document if one already existed, or they'd start piling up every time > one was saved. > > -mental -- Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Nuke the fake config?
by bulia byak 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

>I didn't think about the gen-nrconfig change very closely when it was >first made, but in retrospect, since NRShort is a general-purpose type >with a precision implied by its name, changing its precision is probably >a bug in itself. > >The correct fix is to replace uses of NRShort that require more >precision with a type that provides it -- e.g. NRLong, or better gint32. Why "better"? What if one day, we need 64 bit precision - do a global search and replace again? The NR* stuff was there exactly for this: a layer of abstraction that allows to change the actual precision quickly - and it was not "a bug" because the typedefs are there for exactly this purpose (and they were not "general purpose" becaue the NR prefix limited their scope pretty narrowly to the NR subsystem). Frankly I don't understand why it was necessary to kill it and replace with hard-coded 32-bit types (I can understand getting rid of nr-config.c, but not this). Anyway, it's not my domain, so please fix it one way or the other, so long as it's fixed :) _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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SPOffset UI
by bulia byak 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Now there are two pairs of inset/outset commands: one creates the SPOffset object and the other simply offsets a path, leaving it as a path. Which pair is linked to the menu commands can currently be changed by commenting/uncommenting within sp_selected_path_offset() and sp_selected_path_inset() in splivarot.cpp. I propose the following UI: - "Inset path" and "Outset path" commands act depending on the type of the selected object(s). For SPOffset objects, they increment/decrement radius by options.insetdistance (to be added to the preferences, no more relying on stroke width please!). For all other objects, they do one-time offset leaving objects as paths (or converting them to paths if necessary) also by options.insetdistance. If there are several objects selected, each one is treated according to its type. - The third command, "Dynamic inset/outset", creates an SPOffset with zero radius. It also flashes to the statusbar, "Use node editor to inset/outset the path interactively." If there are no objections, Fred, could you please implement these three commands and I will put them into the menu and in shortcuts. See this page on how to create/access a preferences value: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HandlingPreferences More issues: - The splotches bug is fixed, but now interactive offsetting has become much slower. With a text string, I need to wait at least a second after dragging the control before it regenerates the path. Is this inevitable, or can it be optimized somehow? - The quality of offset in SPOffset object is very good, however the sp_selected_path_do_offset() function creates ugly artefacts (e.g. try it on a text string) even when applied _only once_. Why the difference? - Please use statusbar API to report errors, instead of g_warning: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?StatusBar Whenever a command cannot perform its action, it must provide a reason for it in the statusbar. Also please don't forget to enclose all text strings shown to the user into _("...") so they can be translated. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Nuke the fake config?
by bulia byak 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

>For those who were not on Jabber last night: > >Done. I replaced the following definitions >with GLib types: >NRLong gint32 >NRULong guint32 >NRShort gint16 >NRUShort guint16 You broke zooming with that change, because previously I patched gen-nrconfig so that shorts are not shorts but actually ints. Now shapes disappear at about 69x zoom. See this patch: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=854506&group_id=93… Please restore the ints precision as per this patch, so that zooming works again! _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] RE: offset width modifying
by bulia byak 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

I've tried the new offset object - really impressive! For those who haven't tried it yet, you can now interactively adjust the inset/outset value by dragging a control point (similar to e.g. rounding a rect) and it will be redrawn in real time. You can also vary the radius attribute of the object in XML editor to achieve the same result. The quality and precision of the outline is very good (at least compared to the previous attempts to do multiple in/outsets). A few comments: - The new attributes that you add must be in the inkscape: namespace, not sodipodi:. - The inset/outset commads still require that a path has a stroke. Please change them so that they decrement/increment the radius attribute, by say 1 pt with each command, regardless of stroke (converting a path into offset if necesary). Ideally we'll need to have two pairs of commands, say one incrementing radius by 1 pt and the other (with alt) by the distance corresponding to 1 visible pixel at the current zoom (similar to alt-arrows). - The statusline description of the object can be more useful if instead of simply "Offset" it would say e.g. "Path inset by 1.5pt" or "Path outset by 3pt". - Even though the path quality is now very good, I still noticed occasional "splotches" that would be nice to fix. I'm now uploading one example to the bug tracker so you can see what I'm talking about. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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