April 2008 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Animation (was: Re: Inkscape / GSoC '08 proposal)
by Christophe Dehais 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi Martin and everyone! On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote: > > If anyone is looking for a small simple project that would make great > impact they should think about working with me on the simple animation > plan; although I've not had a lot of time to work on it other than > reading inkscape codebase, I do believe the plan to be a solid > starting point. > I might actually be interested in this. I don't know what you have in mind precisely about "the simple animation plan", but here are the main possible goals I see: * implement the svg animation elements : animate, set, animate{Motion|Color|Transform} * figure out a decent UI for editing animations: - a time-based (SMIL oriented) timeline editor to represent / move around keytimes (=keyframes except it's not frame-based but time-based) - an interpolation curves editor * design some animation-related on-canvas items, like: - trajectories (motion-paths) - temporarily overlayed (t-epsilon) / (t+epsilon) state of an object (to mimic onion skinning) Is that close to what you thought about ? There are a lot of open questions, like: - should there be an "animation mode" where the animated attributes values are edited, as opposed to a "normal mode" where it's the object attributes that are modified ? - SMIL semantic is quite rich: at first some things might be discarded like repetition or the possibility to define the start of an animation based of some events (e.g. user click or the end of another animation). Those things don't map well in a timeline UI which I guess is the way animators are used to think. - will the canvas scale well to preview large animations sufficiently smoothly ? Comments welcomed ! regards, Christophe

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LGM
by Alexandre Prokoudine 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hi, So, who is coming to LGM? :) Alexandre

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New tool added
by Jon A. Cruz 01 May '08

01 May '08

I've just committed the first cut of the new eraser tool. This first part only adds in the functionality to cut away parts of objects you have selected. It won't do anything if you don't have something selected, and it won't do anything if the first mode is selected (the sub-toolbar has toggles for the two modes). However it does commit all the infrastructure changes including the new icons, new drawing context, verbs, switching, etc. I had been wanting to get that in first to shake down bugs in that support work. Hopefully I'll be able to get the other mode committed this weekend. That's the main differentiator and works like touch-delete or perhaps pop-the-balloons. Please let me know if there is anything in that commit that needs fixing, etc. etc. Thanks.

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Gobject or c++???
by Martin (OPENGeoMap) 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Hi all: I want ask a question to inskape community because it´s expert in this matters... What it´s the best method to new GTK software?? - c++/gtkmm - GTK/ gobject - VALA - a mix of gtk, gobject and gtkmm like inskape and k-3d Regards.

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W and H setting broken when geometric bounding box used
by qazxswedcvfrtgbnhyujmkiolp2000 qazxswedcvfrtgbnhyujmkiolp2000 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Hi inkscape-devel, I notice that if i draw a rectangle, then try and adjust W or H (e.g. type 123.456 in the box), that W or H is not set correctly (e.g. it comes out slightly different to the value I typed)!. Works OK if visual bounding box is used, broken if geometric bounding box is used. Is this a bug? Thank you, qazxswedcvfrtgbnhyujmkiolp2000

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [lib2geom-devel] inkscape svn write-enabledaccess request
by Bob Jamison 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Then I must be missing something. Isn't the whole point of linking directly to another repository the ability to always be referencing the current state of the subscribed-to tree? Not a snapshot. Or does it not work that way? bob >Please no. SVN externals are made of pain and fail. It should be >obvious why, if you think about it -- the external and local versions >are not locked in sync, so you can't get a "known good" configuration >when doing e.g. regression testing. > >Every project I've been in that has used svn externals has eventually >abandoned them for that reason. > >-mental >

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GSoC tag-team for lib2geom integration
by unknown＠example.com 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi all, Yesterday I had a chat with mgsloan about lib2geom integration for GSoC'08. We spoke about working together on it. He knows 2geom very well, I know Inkscape well and have worked with 2geom a lot for LPE. Because complete conversion to 2geom is a big task, where 2geom issues can become apparant, I think it is nice to have a 2geom developer working on it aswell (although I did commit some small things to 2geom, I do not count myself as a real 2geom developer). This way, we can both work and discuss things where we are uncertain. I hope to have a somewhat longer discussion with mgsloan within the next couple of days. How do people feel about this? Apart from having a 2-man team on lib2geom integration: I know I have been very brief in my gsoc proposal as blueprint. I am thinking about 1. writing test code (cxxtest) 2. integrating lib2geom in steps, for example per tool or per feature 3. switching to 2geom path representation in inkscape core is advanced task and should be tried later in the project 4. I'd rather *not* work in a branch, because then people that code new things will use 2geom instead of me/us having to recode new things to 2geom. (conflicts etc abound) 5. Release lib2geom after integration is complete. Not before integration is complete because of things that might be missing or bugged in 2geom. Thanks for your opinion, Johan

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Win32 0.46.1 patches
by rygle 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi guys, Just letting you know I've moved all previous Win32 patches for 0.46 to /packaging/win32/patches/0.46, and created a new 0.46.1 directory, just to keep things neat. Bryce and others have expressed concern about linux distros getting narky about unnecessary bug fixes, hence keeping the Win32 only patches separate. That way we can fix a bunch of stuff that was still broken in the win32 0.46 release and not bother the linux distro people at all. All these patches should already be in trunk, and so should automatically make it into 0.47 without remaining separate (I think). The Mac guys might like to do the same ?? Can we keep milestoning bugs for certain releases (unless they're not likely to be solved by 0.47) - with only bug fixes of existing features being marked of 0.46.1. Can we also start adding patches to the win32 0.46.1 section for stuff that's been tried in trunk? I've committed two patches that were in trunk, but there are a bunch more out there already. Thanks, Rygle. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Win32-0.46.1-patches-tp16965858p16965858.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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export of grids and guides to XCF
by Alexandre Prokoudine 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222655 has an attached patch to add grid/guides export to XCF exporter. Could someone who knows Python well please have a look at it? Alexandre

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new SVGEllipticalArc implementation merged into path.h
by Marco 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

I merged my implementation of the SVGEllipticalArc class into path.h substituting the old one. Some method lacks of a native implementation, yet and it relies on a conversion to SBasisCurve, but the class is fully working (there isn't any not_implemented exception thrown any more). Moreover I commit a new version of the svg-elliptic-arc-toy, with the ability of testing the portion method too. PAY ATTENTION ! I want to point out that I modified the src/CMakeList.txt file, adding some line of code in order to find out which version of ragel is installed. This is needed because starting from version 5.18 the ragel package substituted the command rlcodegen with the rlgen-cd command as specific code generator back-end for C, C++ and D languages. If you'll get into troubles when you build the library you'd look that you have the ragel package installed. Anyway in case of problem you can send me a mail or contact me on the lib2geom channel. Regards, Marco -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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