August 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

New Connector tool context
by Michael Wybrow 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hello, I have commited the connector context to CVS. At the moment it can be used to create basic straight-line connectors and interact with and modify existing connectors, i.e., reroute, detach, or attach to new shapes. At the moment connectors can just be attached to the center of shapes (though user placeable connection points are something I will work on later). This interface works works with loading and saving files, undo and redo, etc. Click and drag anywhere to create a connector. If you start or finish over a highlighted connection point, then the connector will be attached to that shape. Dragging the endpoint of any existing connector will alter its endpoint, and attach to a shape if dropped on a connection point. It is usable, but there are some issues. Partly this is because I originally chose to build it on top of the DrawContext and having that underneath is now preventing the exact interaction I want. I've done most of the work of removing this dependency but will finish it later. The current interaction doesn't use the standard selection mechanism. One of the choices I made was that I didn't want the user to have to select a shape to show its connection point, select another for the same reason, and then have to click or drag between the two shapes to draw the actual connector. For this reason the connection points for shapes are shown when the mouse is moved over them. Play with this for a while and I think you'll find it quite natural. At the moment though, due to the draw context stuff, the same behaviour is true for the actual connectors -- they are 'selected' by moving the mouse over them. This is bad since the connector focus jumps around as you move your mouse over different connectors. The true selection mechanism is ignored and the selection cleared when the context is entered. Also bad. The planned solution is to use the standard selection mechanism and show endpoints for the first selected connector, much like the node tool. This means the same selection will be maintained swapping into and out of the connector context. Also, if you've just drawn a connector and want to change its stroke style, another connector isn't going to be selected on your way to the dialog, as Peter pointed out to me today. The mouseover displays connection point behaviour will be kept for shapes but will be completely independant of the selection. Anyway, I thought it important to commit this now, even though I'd love to perfect the interface a little more before showing it off. It's already suffered a fair amount of slippage due to many little unforeseen issues, and my complete ignorance for the complexity of the Inkscape internals. :-) Plus, I feel its important to focus on the integration of the autorouting code, the other main 'goal' of my Summer of Code application. Comments and bug reports welcome! (The src/connector-context.cpp file contains my rough todo list, e.g., I've done some work towards drawing connectors to object edges rather than bounding boxes, but this isn't there yet.) Cheers, Michael

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Writing an extension
by Ted Gould 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Karol Krenski wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:02:06PM -0700, Ted Gould wrote: >>I think there is an approach that will solve your problems today rather >>than waiting. If you use the SVG.pm Perl module (or even the XML one >>really) you can get the coordinates out of the SVG file that is passed >>in. Yes, this isn't Inkscape giving you those values, but you can >>adequately get them for most applications. If you need bounding boxes >>(which you'd need a renderer for) you can recursively call Inkscape >>using the Inkscape command line interface to have Inkscape calculate them. > > Are we talking about *currently selected / active* nodes? Say a path > made of 10 nodes and only 2 of them are now selected by the user, just > before he calls my plugin. I need just those two, not all the nodes on > path of id=xyz. No, sorry, I didn't realize that is what you wanted. The selected nodes are only really known by the node tool. But, it isn't impossible that they could be exported on a call to an extension. I'll have to get back to you on that. --Ted

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Re: [Alexandria-staff] error updating wiki at http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=edit&id=ReleaseNotes
by bulia byak 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Here's what I got from SF admins regarding our wiki. Can someone please do what they tell us to do, i.e. move the wiki data to a writeable location? Our wiki is totally read-only until it's done (and has been for several days already). On 8/18/05, Erich Zigler <zigler@...34...> wrote: > Greetings, > On Monday morning we made a change to our project web servers > remounting all home directories to read-only for security > reasons. This change was originally slated for 2005-02 but > was postponed until 2005-08. More information may be found > in our Site Status: > > ( 2005-08-11 13:17:39 - Project Web Service ) As per the > previous announcement in the sitewide newsletter sent on > 2005-02-28, the project home directories on the project web > servers will be mounted read-only on 2005-08-15 at 9:00 AM. > We highly recommend moving to a database storage mechanism > (the MySQL server we provide) or the new directory tree > provided for all data writing needs from the project web > servers. This operation is described in the following site > document: > https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_i > d=1#permissions > > The change was made on Monday morning: > > ( 2005-08-15 10:53:57 - Project Web Service ) Inquiries > regarding Internal Service Errors should be directed to the > administrator for the project managing that project web > site; some web-based applications (maintained by individual > projects) will malfunction due to the read-only remount of > the project group directories; data needs to be moved to the > project MySQL database, or the /tmp/persistent directory > structure as per > https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_i > d=1#permissions > > If you have any further questions please let fill out a support request by visiting: > https://sourceforge.net/support/getsupport.php?group_id=1 > > Thank you, > > Erich Zigler > First Level Support Technician, SourceForge.net > zigler@...34... > > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 18:43 -0300, bulia byak wrote: > > When I edit http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=edit&id=ReleaseNotes > > and press Save, I get: > > > > > > Software error: > > > > cant write /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/wiki_db/keep/R/ReleaseNotes.kp: > > Read-only file system at /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/cgi-bin/wiki.pl > > line 2854. > > > > For help, please send mail to the webmaster (staff@...34...), > > giving this error message and the time and date of the error. > > > -- > Erich Zigler > First Level Support Technician, SourceForge.net > zigler@...34... > > ************************************************************************** > This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole > use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by others is > strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, > please contact the sender and delete all copies. > ************************************************************************** > > > -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkboard on win32
by Bob Jamison 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

For the people integrating Inkboard into Inkscape: please put back the commit from last week where the default build does not include the Inkboard files. We really cannot have the default build include those files until it builds flawlessly for everyone everywhere. "Works for me" isn't the same thing. Thanks. (By the way, it looks really good. Nice work!) Bob

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libnr/have_mmx.o build issues
by Seth Brutzman 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

i've been attempting to build inkscape from cvs, using source from 2005.08.06. i ran autogen.sh, then ./configure -enable-perl --enable-python --with-xft. all of that went smoothly enough (perl and python were skipped), but i've run across the recurring error below on every make i've initiated. i'm not quite sure whats going on here -- is it an issue with my config or am i missing some library/file? admittedly, i'm not overly experienced with compiling from cvs, but in the past have had no problems with building the tarballs. if it helps at all, here are some vitals: debian GNU/linux i686 automake 1.9.4 gcc 3.3.5 (debian) latest libtools, etc thanks for your help! --seth /* make output and exit errors */ make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/inkscape' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/inkscape/src' gcc -g -O2 -c libnr/have_mmx.S gcc -g -O2 -c libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8A8_P_EMPTY_A8_RGBAP.S gcc -g -O2 -c libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P_A8_RGBAP.S gcc -g -O2 -c libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_N_TRANSFORM.S gcc -g -O2 -c libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8_R8G8B8_R8G8B8A8_P.S rm -f libnr/libnr.a ar cru libnr/libnr.a libnr/nr-blit.o libnr/nr-compose-transform.o libnr/nr-compose.o libnr/nr-gradient.o libnr/nr-matrix-div.o libnr/nr-matrix-fns.o libnr/nr-matrix-rotate-ops.o libnr/nr-matrix-scale-ops.o libnr/nr-matrix-translate-ops.o libnr/nr-matrix.o libnr/nr-object.o libnr/nr-path.o libnr/nr-pixblock-line.o libnr/nr-pixblock-pattern.o libnr/nr-pixblock-pixel.o libnr/nr-pixblock.o libnr/nr-point-fns.o libnr/nr-rect-l.o libnr/nr-rect.o libnr/nr-rotate-fns.o libnr/nr-rotate-matrix-ops.o libnr/nr-scale-matrix-ops.o libnr/nr-scale-translate-ops.o libnr/nr-svp-render.o libnr/nr-svp.o libnr/nr-translate-matrix-ops.o libnr/nr-translate-scale-ops.o libnr/nr-translate-rotate-ops.o libnr/nr-types.o libnr/nr-values.o libnr/have_mmx.o libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8A8_P_EMPTY_A8_RGBAP.o libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P_A8_RGBAP.o libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_P_R8G8B8A8_N_TRANSFORM.o libnr/nr_mmx_R8G8B8_R8G8B8_R8G8B8A8_P.o make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/inkscape/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/inkscape' ar: libnr/have_mmx.o: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [libnr/libnr.a] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2

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modevia.com package
by Ralf Stephan 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hello, since people were satisfied with ACSpike's http://inkscape.modevia.com/ap/inkscape-0.42-2.x86.package I closed the bug 1246201, and opened one for the minor error message. More importantly, can the package be moved to the main site so people see it there? Regards, ralf

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blendercon2005
by Jon Phillips 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Is anyone interested in participating in a session at blender con in Amsterdam about inkscape, blender, ocal, etc. interoperability? The conference is October 14-16, 2005 at De Waag in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I'm talking to Ton from the blender foundation about this possibility for this conference and it might be best to get some folks interested in this who live closer than me. http://blender.org/cms/Call_for_participation.373.0.html Ignore the due date for now. I'd like to see who is interested and how to proceed. It looks like this conference is free (food, etc) to presenters/panelists/etc and there is an honorarium. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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Gnome Canvas
by Alan Horkan 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Havoc Pennington wrote some notes about Canvas widgets http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-August/msg00067.html Not sure if he is aware of Inkscape plans to share canvas widget. Someone interested in this area might want to talk to him or respond to that conversation on the gtk-devel list. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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pressure sensitivity: tutorial update needed
by bulia byak 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Finally, I just tried the new pressure sensitivity stuff in calligraphy tool (on Windows, as I still can't make it work on my Linux). It works excellent, I don't have a single complaint :) It's a major new feature, much requested by people. So we already have a good reason to release 0.43 :) What is now needed is an update to the Calligraphy tutorial: what the new buttons do, how they interact with the rest of the options, what hardware/platforms are supported, and ideally an example or two of art made with these options. Any volunteers? I'm really too busy now and I don't know when I'll have time for this. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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error updating wiki at http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=edit&id=ReleaseNotes
by bulia byak 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

When I edit http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=edit&id=ReleaseNotes and press Save, I get: Software error: cant write /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/wiki_db/keep/R/ReleaseNotes.kp: Read-only file system at /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/cgi-bin/wiki.pl line 2854. For help, please send mail to the webmaster (staff@...34...), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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