January 2007 - Inkscape Devel

rewrite of the filename_add_extension() in src/dialogs/export.cpp
by Muthiah Annamalai 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hello there, I have made a rewrite of the filename_add_extension() in src/dialogs/export.cpp based on the FIXME comment there. I have test script and the patch attached. Thanks, Muthu

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svg-color.cpp - make check error
by Bryce Harrington 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hi all, There appears to be just a single make check error (at least, on my box): g++ -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-pa svg/libspsvg.a(css-ostringstream.o): In function `CSSOStringStream': /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include/g++-v3/bits/ios_base.h:629: undefined reference to `prefs_' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include/g++-v3/bits/ios_base.h:629: undefined reference to `prefs_' svg/libspsvg.a(stringstream.o): In function `SVGOStringStream': /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include/g++-v3/bits/ios_base.h:629: undefined reference to `prefs_' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/include/g++-v3/bits/ios_base.h:629: undefined reference to `prefs_' svg/libspsvg.a(svg-color.o): In function `sp_svg_write_color(char*, unsigned int, unsigned int)': svg/svg-color.cpp:429: undefined reference to `prefs_get_int_attribute(char const*, char const*, long l' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [svg/test-svg] Error 1 I've doublechecked the header file that defines prefs_get_int_attribute, and it has to gchar* args and a long long. I experimented with casting the args for this call of that routine, but always got the same error. Anyone else got a better idea? Bryce

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Alt-Click shortcut
by Bryce Harrington 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Currently Inkscape uses Alt-Click for various things (select-under, randomize star, etc.) However, generally this shortcut is taken by the desktop environments. In fact we have a bug in our tracker and in Ubuntu's tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1250110&group_id=9… It is possible for the user to recover this shortcut for Inkscape by disabling it in the desktop environment's configuration settings, but this has the obvious downside of disallowing the shortcut for other programs beyond Inkscape. In playing around with it a little, I notice that Alt-Ctrl-LeftClick appears to produce the same behavior as Alt-LeftClick. Since Alt-Ctrl-LeftClick is not taken by the desktop environment, there is no conflict. Thus it would seem that we could address the bug easily without any code change to Inkscape, by simply altering the documentation to indicate use of Alt-Ctrl-LeftClick instead of Alt-LeftClick. For users who prefer the Alt-LeftClick behavior, that will remain working so no functionality is lost. What do others think of this approach? Bryce

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A brazilian wiki with scripts tutorials and gallery
by Popolon 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Didn't know this before. Yemanja say there was a good brasilian wiki about inkscape. She has the project to do another in french, with same spirit : http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/bin/view/InkscapeBrasil/WebHome There are cool SVG (galeria section), some nice tutorials (screenshot should be enough for people knowing inkscape but that doesn't understand portuguese). And some inkscape scripts from a guy linked in the gallery. Inkmoz a script using mozilla gecko to apply javascript on svg documents (english + portuguese): http://colibre.com.br/bin/view/Aurium/InkMoz Only described in portuguese, a script for designer that cuts a svg for webpage : http://colibre.com.br/bin/view/Aurium/InkscapeAreaCuter (sorry only understand words that are near from french ones). I will post another message when the fr wiki will be OK.

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Fwd: About Screen for 0.45 - Developer Voting Time
by john cliff 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

On 1/11/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote: > Bryce Harrington wrote: > > - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45360907/ > > Even though I don't think this example exercises blur as much as we > would like, I can't help but love the mountain. It get's my vote. > > Aaron Spike > Ditto, may not be as obviously blurred, but i love the image, gets my vote Sim.

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Buildtool fix
by Bob Jamison 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Hi, Everyone who is building on win32 will want to 'svn up' and recompile buildtool.cpp: g++ buildtool.cpp -o btool Johan pointed out a bug to me where the .mo files in /locale were being copied to the wrong place. That is now fixed. This is -very- important to have before 0.45. Thanks, Johan! bob

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Building Inkscape on Win32
by unknown＠example.com 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Johan wrote: > Currently we use 'buildtool' to build Inkscape on windows, > which works perfect. Should we therefore still keep > Makefile.mingw and its friends up to date? > I cannot 'make' Inkscape with gtk210 because > "-I$(GTK)/include/cairomm-1.0 \" > is missing in the include paths. When added it works fine, > for the first files, but compilation stops at > /dom/io/socket.cpp (plus i get a GLIBMM_DLL redefinition > warning for a lot of files) > > Also, I tried the latest build from > http://inkscape.modevia.com/ and it crashes when the global > pref window is opened. > > Lots of build problems right before the release :S > > Note that when I do 'buildtool dist' I get no errors and a > nice working Inkscape distribution (that does not crash on > opening pref dialog), but with the locale language files not > properly copied. > > 1. Should 'make' be made to work properly on Windows. If yes, > with gtk2.10 of gtk2.8? > 2. inkscape.modevia.com crosscompiles I think; does that > cause the crashes on pref. dialog? Note that it is not that hard to get correct builds from 'make': only Makefile.mingw.common has to be updated a bit which was real easy. My question is therefore: should this be done in future and be committed to SVN? Maybe only for this release for the last time? And then after the release, delete all mingw makefiles, so there is no confusion anymore?

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Schedule for 0.45 release branch
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

For this release, we're doing things a little differently in that we'll be tagging the release branch earlier in the process than usual. This is primarily to enable developers not focusing on the release process to continue with development work. During hard freezes we require use of the patch tracker instead of svn anyway, so it shouldn't hurt to return svn to regular developer access anyway. So, we're planning on tagging the release branch this weekend - perhaps as early as Friday. The main requirement is that we want to be able to pass 'make check'. Ideally, I'd like to see us pass on all platforms (Linux, Win32, and OSX), but at least we must pass on Linux. Bryce

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NEW: perspective extension
by bulia byak 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

I have committed the Perspective extension from our patch tracker. Like Envelope, it morphs one path to fit another path with 4 nodes, but it does it differently using with perspective distortions. One thing it requires is the Numeric Python package. Since we're carrying our own Python on Windows, can we add it to the package too? Otherwise this extension is unusable on Windows. There are more issues with this extension, such as it not working properly for me :) http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1600298&group_id=9… Also it displays a window with some Python/Inkscape warnings after it is run. However I decided to commit it, since being an extension it will not destabilize the program, and because more people will find it and test it and hopefully fix it. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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how to detect a selected node in an extension
by unknown＠example.com 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Hello, I try to do some manipulations on paths within a python extension. As I saw a selected object is passed as argument with its id to the python script. Now I am interested in finding out which node of a path is selected in single-node-manipulation mode (don't know the exact name in English). Is there a way to get an list of selected indices or something like that? Thanks Werner Arnhold

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