May 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

vector aesthetics
by Jon Phillips 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hello all, I've been working on a writing for a little while about what I'm calling "vector aesthetics," which is a feature-based look at vector graphics and design styles that are influenced by vector graphics. I'm trying to get some eyes on the writing and some edits/fixes from these lovely knowledgeable communities. http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VectorAesthetics I'm trying to develop a large picture view of SVG, Flash, why SVG is important and how the art/aesthetics of SVG relates and is defined. The final text will be included in a book I'm trying to get published (in the future). Read more here: http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl if interested. There are various sections in the writing which are important for our communities to understand/look-at and is one of the reasons why I have been working on these texts, as I think we need to zoom out and look at the big picture of what we are working on, SVG, INKSCAPE, Clipart, and OSS, and see where it is at in the aesthetic and technical landscapes. Jon -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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prefix.cpp pthreads dependency
by MenTaLguY 03 May '04

03 May '04

prefix.cpp introduced a pthreads dependency that is breaking us on Win32... Any suggestions on how to proceed? I do think we ought to be able to use it in a threadsafe configuration, but it should be using the Glib threading wrappers for portability. -mental

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Status May 2, 2004
by Bryce Harrington 03 May '04

03 May '04

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] statusbar API
by bulia byak 03 May '04

03 May '04

>I think what I want to do initially is have SPView provide two "virtual" >methods (we'll need to use the GObject vtable for now rather than real >virtual methods): > > StatusMessageID SPView::postStatusMessage(StatusMessageType type, bool >flash, gchar const *message); > > void SPView::cancelStatusMessage(StatusMessageID id); > >StatusType would be an enum indicating the "style" of the message -- >warnings might get a little warning icon next to them, etc... > >postStatusMessage returns an id which can be later used to cancel the >status message with cancelStatusMessage. I.e. that is different from the current system in that you added a style param and use an id to cancel messages. I don't see any problems with that, except that I don't see much use for the style param currently, and I also want to preserve the current pop function (popping whatever is at the top of the stack without an id) as well, because in many situations (such as dragging or navigating in menu) there's really no need to fiddle with ids. That would be extra work for no extra benefit, for in these cases nothing can conceivable overlay the message that you just pushed up. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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statusbar API cont'd
by MenTaLguY 03 May '04

03 May '04

Okay, here's the second half of my thinking on the statusbar stuff. Basically, a class that looks something like this: class StatusMessageContext { public: StatusBarContext(SPView *view) : _view(view), _message_id(NULL_MESSAGE_ID) { g_object_ref(G_OBJECT(_view)); } ~StatusBarContext() { cancel(); g_object_unref(G_OBJECT(_view)); } void post(StatusMessageType type, gchar const *message) { cancel(); _message_id = _view->postStatusMessage(type, false, message); } void flash(StatusMessageType type, gchar const *message) { _view->postStatusMessage(type, true, message); } void cancel() { if (_message_id) { _view->cancelStatusMessage(_message_id); _message_id = NULL_MESSAGE_ID; } } void postF(StatusMessageType type, gchar const *format, ...) { ... etc ... } void flashF(StatusMessageType type, gchar const *format, ...) { ... etc ... } private: SPView *_view; StatusMessageID _message_id; }; The idea being that everybody can have their own StatusMessageContext (e.g. a SPSelectContext has one, and a seltrans has one, etc..). Then they can simply pretend they have the statusbar all to themselves, but it will do the right thing for all concerned behind the scenes. Comments? -mental

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RE: [Inkscape-user] ~/.inkscape/private-fonts
by bulia byak 03 May '04

03 May '04

>Now that we're using Gtk2, "normal" font installation is easy even on >Unix (put your fonts in ~/.fonts). > >Would anyone object if we removed support for the "private-fonts" file? >I don't think we have a need to maintain our own font >installation/management mechanism anymore. No problem for me. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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~/.inkscape/private-fonts
by MenTaLguY 02 May '04

02 May '04

Now that we're using Gtk2, "normal" font installation is easy even on Unix (put your fonts in ~/.fonts). Would anyone object if we removed support for the "private-fonts" file? I don't think we have a need to maintain our own font installation/management mechanism anymore. -mental

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removal of nr_arena_item_new()
by MenTaLguY 02 May '04

02 May '04

I removed nr_arena_item_new() today and replaced it with calls to NRArenaWhatever::clear() static members. That should clear the field for you to do some more C++ification work there. -mental

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statusbar API
by MenTaLguY 02 May '04

02 May '04

I've been thinking about your suggestions re: the statusbar stuff... I think what I want to do initially is have SPView provide two "virtual" methods (we'll need to use the GObject vtable for now rather than real virtual methods): StatusMessageID SPView::postStatusMessage(StatusMessageType type, bool flash, gchar const *message); void SPView::cancelStatusMessage(StatusMessageID id); StatusType would be an enum indicating the "style" of the message -- warnings might get a little warning icon next to them, etc... postStatusMessage returns an id which can be later used to cancel the status message with cancelStatusMessage. If 'flash' is true, the message is automatically cancelled after a period of time. Cancelling an already cancelled message does no harm. These two methods will be the building blocks on top of which a "friendlier" (e.g. printf formatting and other amenities) API would be built. But details on that will have to wait for later tonight. -mental

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Wiki
by Arpad Biro 02 May '04

02 May '04

Hi, It seems someone has put some inappropriate stuff into the Inkscape Wiki: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiSyntax Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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