September 2007 - Inkscape Devel

Crash on Win XP, cannot get backtrace
by Diederik en Rezi 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Hi, On opening one of my own recent Inkscape SVG files on my Windows XP machine at work, Inkscape apparently gets stuck in a loop (100% CPU usage). When I subsequently click on its main window, it crashes. It looks like it is stuck while redrawing the screen, as I can see part of my desktop and part of my SVG file. When starting through gdb however it also gets stuck, but it won't crash. How do I get some useful information from gdb to help debugging? Currently, I only have "unknown software exception 0xc00000fd" at "0x672ddbd9". I'm running Inkscape0709022056, as provided by ishmal. Diederik

2 1

menus
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Hi, With lots of additions overal last year menus become quite busy. A couple of observations. 1. We have both "Effects - Images" and "Effects - Raster" menus. Do we keep "Images" submenu for any possible effect not altering contents of raster images or just embedding/disembedding? If it's emdedding related only, should we probably then rename submenu? btw, I'm not really sure that the current way of dealing with embedding/exporting raster files in SVG document really optimal. See, opening an arbitrary file I can't tell if an image used there is embedded or not without looking into source code.There's no indicator to tell that. An improved hint in status bar could probably be the first step in the right, IMO, direction. Something like "Embedded image A x B size in layer N" and "External image A x B size in layer N". What do you think? 2. Text case altering commands live in "Effects - Text". Should it probably belong to "Text" menu? As user of applications like Scribus or OpenOffice.org (sorry, Scribus guys :)) I don't perceive those as effects --- this is rather altering of text that its look'n'feel. Same goes for "Replace text..." --- to me it rather belongs to "Edit" or "Text" menu, not speaking about some kind of clash with "Edit - Find...". Comments? :) Alexandre

4 6

Connecting to signals
by unknown＠example.com 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

I've had some struggle in signals and stuff. I found this in the code: _close_button.signal_clicked() .connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this, &LayerPropertiesDialog::_close)); (dialogs/layer-properties.cpp) Why is this connection not saved? Is that not necessary? It seems to me that this is buggy. When the layer window is deleted, the connection is not disconnected and when the signal is emitted it will call _close with a corrupt "this" value. (this will never happen probably because the button is on the dialog itself, but still) Thanks for some light on this, Johan P.S. Why is there a function signal_clicked() to get the signal? In my code I just make the sigc::signal public (see /ui/widget/random.h). Is that bad?

2 1

[OT] Website buttons
by Aurélio A. Heckert 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Hi, in the Inkscape website has two W3C buttons like that: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/Main/TWikiPreferences/bt_xhtml10_p.gif I did a SVG button based on that and you can get hire: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/ProjetoGrafico/bt_svg_p.p… I think is good to promote the SVG standard like the XHTML standard ;-) And i did a Inkscape button for everybody: http://twiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/InkscapeBrasil/ProjetoGrafico/bt_inkscap… Até! Aurium -- -===================================================- . . Aurélio A. Heckert [ GNU/Linux ] / \ http://www.aurium.cjb.net ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) `-_---" "---_-´ Ilustração Vetorial Livre: `--|o` ´o|--´ http://InkscapeBrasil.org \ ' / Projeto Software Livre - Bahia: ): :( http://psl-ba.softwarelivre.org (o_o) Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: "-" http://www.colivre.coop.br ------------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ( ( ( http://www.midiaindependente.org ) ) ) -===================================================- "Se conhecimento é poder, que país governado por industriais dará a verdadeira educação? Cuidado com o feedback da miséria!" Tet Ramon "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson

1 0

Fullscreen (F11)
by Tobias Jakobs 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Hi, it looks like the fullscreen mode (F11) is broken in SVN. :( Can someone confirm this? Regards, Tobias

2 1

build break on 2geom change
by Jon A. Cruz 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

It appears that as of tonight the build is broken due to a missing dependency. The update to the 2geom code brought in a dependance on gsl. If someone could look into that and then update configure.ac with a check for the needed version, that would be helpful. Just FYI, on a Mac here I have version 1.8.

2 2