December 2004 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Re: [Inkscape-user] autosave ?
by MenTaLguY 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 18:04, Florent wrote: > So I'm appealing to anyone who can create an autosave :-) We already have autosave-on-crash already, actually. The one catch is that for crashes due to failed assertions (like this one), it isn't triggered yet. (I'm CCing the development mailing list, if anyone's interested in attacking this right now: At least on Unix, this is relatively easy to fix -- just set up a SIGABRT handler similar to the SIGSEGV handler we have now. The one catch is that the handler will need to disable itself as soon as it is triggered, because the autosave code raises SIGABRT when it is done. Also we should make sure we've got SIGBUS covered if we don't already.) -mental

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Freehand drawing tool
by Bryce Harrington 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

There'd been some comments about the quality of the Inkscape drawing tool compared with Sodipodi. I experimented around a bit with both. I see what they mean, but it's difficult to quantify the issue. Inkscape's drawing tool "feels" snappier, it doesn't lag like Sodipodi, and it produces lines smoothly, but it just doesn't "feel" right. I can't draw worth beansy, but I could see the difference when I tried writing my name: http://bryceharrington.com/freehand_drawing.png Try signing your name with the two apps and see if you notice a difference. Bryce

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layer commands we need
by bulia byak 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Here's a list of layer commands that we need to implement, comments and additions welcome: Layers... // opens the Layers dialog ------------------- Move to Layer Above Shift+PgUp // move selection to the top of sibling layer above, or to the top of parent layer (but not root) if no siblings Move to Layer Below Shift+PgDn // move selection to the top of sibling layer below, or to the bottom of parent layer (but not root) if no siblings Move to Layer... // let me choose the layer name to move selection to ------------------- Unlock All Layers // unlock all layers in the document (or all siblings of the current layer?) Unhide All Layers ------------------- Unlock All in Layer // unlock all children of the current layer Unhide All in Layer ------------------- Group to Layer // convert group to layer Layer to Group

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CFV: Gtkmm - Implement preferences class
by Bryce Harrington 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Here is a task needed for the gtkmm codebase. Requires good knowledge of C++, ok knowledge of XML, and at least passing knowledge of the Inkscape codebase. Preferences =========== Design an Inkscape::Preferences class that wrappers an SPRepr. It must provide the following public interface as a minimum: gboolean save(const gchar *filename); gboolean load(const gchar *filename); SPRepr* getRepr(const gchar *key); Look in inkscape.* for the C-versions of the above routines. * Hook up the preferences functions in ui/dialog/dialog.cpp To learn more, check out the gtkmm codebase like this: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape login (hit enter for password) $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape co experimental/bryce/inkscape_gtkmm $ cd experimental/bryce/inkscape_gtkmm $ make $ ./inkscape Also look in the PLAN file for more todo's and projects' in the gtkmm codebase. Bryce

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restore ruler units
by Aaron Spike 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

There has been some talk about units lately and I have a question. Please excuse me if this is what you've been talking about and I didn't catch it. The units in my template are mm. If I create a new document and change the units to inches the rulers change to inches. But If I save that document, close and open it again the ruler units are once again mm. And even more I have so far been unable to change them back to inches. I think Inkscape thinks they are already inches. Do other people experience this? Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Suggestion for the preferences dialog
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > >What approach did you use to create this mockup? > > > >I gave a shot at trying to mock up something with glade, but with > >disappointing results. However this definitely looks doable. > > > >Bryce > > > > > Well, I used the Gimp... Cool, it looks really good. I'm not sure if we'll be able to replicate it exactly, but I think we should strive to get as close as we can - this looks extremely good. > I am trying to learn Glade, but so far, all my attempts have been > unsuccesfull. Yeah same here, I thought it might provide a shortcut to having to implement the tree management stuff, but no such luck. It does not appear to generate code for managing tree widgets, and the stuff that it can do well is reasonably straightforward to do by hand. Anyway, so I'd say, stick with gimp. ;-) > I do really hope that I have not created an uncodable monster here. :) > - Andreas Nilsson Nah, it'll just be a considerable challenge. :-) In fact, I had noticed earlier that we needed tree-oriented editing dialogs for several other purposes - the XML tree, layers, extensions, and possibly keyboard layouts. I was going to emulate the XML editor design, but what you've done for the preferences dialog looks like it provides the same basic capabilities, and I'm thinking that if we can implement this design, we can reuse it in at least 4 places. One alteration I'm considering in order to support the other kinds of dialogs is a toolbar on the top of the dialog (see the XML editor). For the XML editor this is used for adding/moving/deleting nodes. How do you think we could use this in the preferences dialog? Perhaps the help button could be moved up there (saving some space on the bottom of the screen?) Perhaps an 'export preferences' function? 'restore defaults'? The other thing I'm wondering is that some people are going to really like the extra space between widgets in the dialog (and it helps us adhere to the HIG, as you point out), however others will prefer more concise use of space in order to maximize the dialogs they can have open at once. Preferences are unlikely to be something people will want to have up all the time, and same with extensions, however with the XML editor and layers I'm not as sure - what do you think? Bryce

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Volunteer work and an idea how to get into existing code bases
by Felix Rabe 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Hi Bryce, It's a shame that I only saw your calls for volunteer work now that you replied to them yourself... But I think this is an excellent idea to invite new developers! There needs to be more of it, or maybe it just needs to be more visible (like with a tag in the subject, eg. "[CFV]" for "Call For Volunteers"). In fact, I was looking for an easy way to familiarize myself with existing (poorly or barely documented) code bases and came up with this (as yet sadly unimplemented) idea: Look for a bug that has been fixed sometime in CVS and get a diff for the fix. I think it might be another good invitation and might add value to code documentation if some good (ie. easy) fixes and enhancements were pointed out in the Wiki by the developers that commited them to CVS or by the newbies that found the diffs and found them to be straightforward. If I someday get to implement this idea, should I start a Wiki page? (This might take a few months though...) Or is somebody else willing to do it? Or is it a not-so-god (bad) idea altogether? Greetings, Felix

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.41 release plans
by Ben Crowell 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

>Also Ben Crowell's Perl >scripts and XSLT scripting are very nice features that should be more >accessible, if possible, via the Scripts dialog or otherwise. Incorporating some of the Perl scripts would be fun, and I'd like to do it. However, IIRC there is still only a sketch of an API? Give me an API, and I'll get to work. Basically I need: - a way to get an svg file as input, and send it back as output - a way to report errors (including errors due to not having the right CPAN modules installed) - a way to get input strings from the user - a way to display some documentation to the user about what this script does - provisions for internationalizing all the strings the user will see Also, some of my scripts have known unixisms, which I can clean up, but I will still need help with testing on Windows, since I don't have a Windows box.

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CVS not compilable
by bulia byak 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

1. In src/io/Makefile_insert, several files are listed with InitialCaps but they are actually all-lowercase, so make fails. 2 After fixing 1, I get: io/xsltstream.cpp: In member function `virtual void Inkscape::IO::XsltOutputStream::flush()': io/xsltstream.cpp:183: error: `xmlErrorPtr' undeclared (first use this function) io/xsltstream.cpp:183: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.) io/xsltstream.cpp:183: error: syntax error before `=' token io/xsltstream.cpp:184: error: `err' undeclared (first use this function) Please fix these ASAP, and please be careful to not leave CVS in uncompilable state, especially on holidays when it may be hard to reach people.

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