January 2004 - Inkscape Devel

page shadow
by bulia byak 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Jon, I think it would be more convenient just to add a preferences value (e.g. options.pageshadow) for how large is the shadow, or no shadow if it is 0. Can you please do that? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] coding standards
by bulia byak 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

>>http://paul.oniony.com/sections/information/tabsversusspaces.html > >I'm arguing for what he calls "Hybrid Indentation". I'd prefer it too. My XEmacs inserts tabs for me, and I don't really want to learn reconfiguring it. There are more interesting problems :) _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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SVG Patterns
by Alan Horkan 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

You mentioned SVG patterns and that you were having difficulty finding programs that used them. Jasc Web Draw 1.0 for Windows also implements SVG Patterns. http://www.jasc.com/products/webdraw/ You can download a trial version from the Jasc website (or you can be a little bit sneakier and skip the registration process by going elsewhere ftp://ftp2.jasc.com/pub/ I think this the link for Web Draw ftp://ftp2.jasc.com/pub/wdw102ev.exe ) I've dumped a copy of the patterns.svg file in this folder http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/jascwebdraw/ SVG Patterns http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/jascwebdraw/patterns.svg Hope that is of use. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ PS this is a new post,sorry I couldn't maintain the thread

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Re: Patterns
by Bryce Harrington 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, vellum wrote: > Hi Bryce, > > In the new year when the dust has settled I would like to pursue patterns in > Inkscape. I have been collecting and generating SVG code for several that I > would like to see in the program and will post them. Also, what about > generating specific patterns not present in the program? Would it be very > difficult to implement this in Inkscape? > > Vellum What we need to do for not only this but also markers and gradients is to have a "palette manager" thingee that allows the user to edit these kind of <def> items. There's three types of <def> items - "document level", "application level", and "external". Document level def's are stored in the document itself; currently this is the only type supported. Application level def's are defaults that will be provided by Inkscape itself; these are copied into the document if used, and removed if any all referring objects are deleted. External def's are specified with URI's and are not copied into the document at all, but instead looked up and loaded in memory at runtime; a command would be provided to the user to flatten external def's into document level def's. Bryce

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win build + tablet
by bulia byak 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Bob, I tested your latest Windows builds on a win98 system with a Wacom tablet. Unfortunately it's almost unusable because it responds to perhaps 1/4 of all button_press and button_release events. Pressing harder does not help. Other Windows programs and all Linux programs on the same computer work fine. I suspect it's a GTK port problem, so my question is: do you know any other GTK program ported to Windows with the same libraries as you use, so I could test it and compare? _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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Re: page shadow
by bulia byak 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

>Is there a place in the source code you could recommend to me where I >can look at and copy another one? Lots of places now use prefs_get_int_attribute. E.g. tolerance value, scroll distances, etc. It's very simple in fact. The Wiki page was written for you :) >I suggested a pref value and other developers said save your time. Different people may prefer different shadow styles, so a preference is appropriate IMHO. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 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] your nodepath changes
by bulia byak 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

>Got it. Added a method to return the node count of a nodepath. >Now when a node delete leaves <2 nodes, it considered the >same as if the whole thing was deleted. > >Tried both node_delete() and node_delete_segment() with ><2, 2, and >2 nodes. Seems to work OK. Looked in the XML >and didn't see any phantoms. Thank you, that works well. Although I would prefer the node tool to still be able to handle one-node path, and only delete it when you switch away from the node tool. So that e.g. I can leave one node and "draw" from it by pressing shift-d and arrow keys repeatedly. But perhaps it's not worth the extra trouble, and at least it's safer as you implemented it. _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] your nodepath changes
by bulia byak 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

>>Still segfaults for one-node path: >Got that one, too. The segfault is fixed, but it still leaves a ghost path with empty d="" attribute which is impossible to delete except in the XML editor. Could you please change it so that if a single node remains, the path object is deleted when you switch away from node tool? This is consistent because if you delete all nodes but one in a subpath, then on the next entry into node tool, that subpath is gone. So I think we should do the same for the entire path, too. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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cannot compile
by bulia byak 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

sp-symbol.cpp: In function `void sp_symbol_bbox(SPItem*, NRRect*, const NRMatrix*, unsigned int)': sp-symbol.cpp:466: error: cannot convert `NRMatrix' to `NRMatrix*' for argument `1' to `NRMatrix* nr_matrix_multiply(NRMatrix*, const NRMatrix*, const NRMatrix*)' sp-symbol.cpp:469: error: cannot convert `NRMatrix' to `const NRMatrix*' in argument passing sp-root.cpp: In function `void sp_root_bbox(SPItem*, NRRect*, const NRMatrix*, unsigned int)': sp-root.cpp:715: error: cannot convert `NRMatrix' to `NRMatrix*' for argument `1' to `NRMatrix* nr_matrix_multiply(NRMatrix*, const NRMatrix*, const NRMatrix*)' sp-root.cpp:718: error: cannot convert `NRMatrix' to `const NRMatrix*' in argument passing _________________________________________________________________ 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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MAX_PATH not safe
by Jon A. Cruz 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Uh oh. Using MAX_PATH as an absolute turns out not to be safe. WINE's docs have this to say in regards to CreateFile > Windows NT: You can use paths longer than MAX_PATH characters by > calling the wide (W) version of CreateFile and prepending “\\?\” to > the path. The “\\?\” tells the function to turn off path parsing. This > lets you use paths that are nearly 32,000 Unicode characters long. You > must use fully-qualified paths with this technique. This also works > with UNC names. The “\\?\” is ignored as part of the path. IIRC, we have at least a few fixed buffers with MAX_PATH. 256 is a bit shy of 32767. =-O

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