March 2013 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

New/Update LPE Sketch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

The number of lines to draw can be get by tree ways: 1.- Changing the default value when alter the number of lines, im not sure if can be done, but is what like more. 2.-Search in the SVG the value of the widget number of lines in the first filter -last applied- of this LPE 3.-By preferences. I dont like this, not intuitive. Hi, Jabier.

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New/Update LPE Sketch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

One thing more, maybe the fiter isnt necesary, by adding a button near spiro or in the combobox of siluette near ellipse.triangle in... Whith this combo youu can select for example Spiro+Sketch. Any body want to put name to this? Hi, Jabier.

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New/Update LPE Sketch
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi to all. Im thinking in a aditional LPE based in Sketch LPE. The goal is: A simple LPE whith few widgets maybe only this one: Select the number of lines to draw. When you draw a pen stroke it create this numbrer of lines whith a random seed position of nodes. but cobering all path whith random ofset at start and at end. The finality is made a speed sketch tool, in the current Sketch LPE the calculations to made a rich "Sketch" slow the drawing speed because you neeed a lot of lines to cover the full path. By this way only need to calculate a delimited number of lines. This is like more lines more beauty but more slow, few lines faster redraw. Who thik this feature interesant? think is very easy to make, and it can go whith a filter Sketch layer, to select the number of lines and if you want Spriro or ?BSpline. This aditional live effects are because a live effect in a layer hide the filter effects of his children. But isnt a problem because is only to ?starting sketchs. It can be done in the pencil tool, but with Live Effect isnt "destructive" and maybe user can hide the effect, alter a path is more easy, and maybe more easy to made, but is only my opinion. Hi, Jabier.

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Updates in Bspline branch.
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi to all. Y apply some fixes that Mauro give to me. *Simmetrical, smooth, auto, node toolbar now only give or a 0.3334 weight BSpline or a CUSP node. *Fixed a bad brehaviour continuing existing curves *Pencil mode work in bsline mode *Fixed widgets of LPE Mauro tell me about a problem/feature scaling some nodes and moving them, they reset to original position, it happens in the devel version? Now the widgets work better, i have some problems whith the button widget, some times is necesary press two times to update the scalar list. Mauro, coment me is a good point apply custom weight only to selected paths, whats is the best way to have a vector of selected nodes/points insde a LPE? By, Jabier.

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"superdropper"
by Bric 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi, guys: This just reached a critical "must-express" pressure in my head: I've been periodically, over the last few years, missing this (yet non-existent?) feature for a dropper, in Inkscape (as well as in other image editors). An enhanced version of a dropper, which does the following: It's able to "suck up" the attributes of an object (similar to what it's already doing), and then "drip them out" onto one OR MORE (multiple!) objects, as the user wishes. The sampled (sucked up) attributes could stay in the dropper buffer, indefinitely... until the user replaces them with another dropper "suction". In addition, it would be nice to expand the number of attribute types the dropper can disperse, and, of course, let the user check/uncheck the attributes that are being copied and dispersed. [x] fill [x] stroke color [x] stroke thickness - absolute units [x] stroke thickness - proportional/adjusted to the transform magnification (not sure about this one, just a thought) [x] opacity [x] alpha [x] a variety of other attributes, like roundness, etc. (limited to certain objects, perhaps) [x] funky, crazy user-assigned things, like "reduce to same number of nodes" -- OK, maybe i'm going too far here... [x] I might be missing many many other great additions to this list; i'm sure others would suggest more stuff. ------------------ So... with this superdropper I'd be able to click on a path/object, and then, holding down some drip/endow control key combo (like, "Ctrl+Alt[+click]", or some such) click on object(s) TO WHICH I WOULD PASS these attributes — as many objects as I like, in succession..., without re-sampling (without sucking in attributes) ------------------- It seems like code-wise, it shouldn't be that difficult. -------------------- I was checking out the 0.48 dropper, and it is already capable of copying either the stroke color or the fill color, distinctly, and there's already a button tool bar to go with it. (But it doesn't seem to be able to do a series of "drip-outs" onto many objects.) -------------------- As far as I know this is my original idea, and I'd like to "bequeath" it to Inkscape and other GPL-licensed applications. So, just to be sure no commercial app hijacks this feature (the concept/algorithm) and claims it as its own (and prevents open-source apps from acquiring it), I hereby declare the afore-mentioned feature to be under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, v3, as spelled out by the Free Software Foundation. Again, this is just in case it hasn't been developed yet, although i'm actually hard-pressed to believe that it doesn't yet exist somewhere, and in case there's a looming threat of some commercial-venture grabbing the feature before it gets integrated into some GPL'ed app (hopefully into Inkscape) ------------------------------ Thanks!

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New tools
by Dennis Coyle III 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

I'm not new to programming but definitely rusty. Coming back into it for the first time in c++ has been a bit jarring. I am looking to create a couple tools to experiment with and was wondering the best way to go about it. One will use a lot of functionality of knots but I'm not sure as to how hard it would be to subclass the knot and remove (what I believe is) the element constraint. (tell me if i'm mixing terms here). Any leads to a good subclassing refesher (i.e. what includes I really need in the subclass etc.) would be extremely beneficial. Thanks.

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Spirolive+BSpline insert node fixed
by Jabier Arraiza 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi to all. Fixed Spirolive+BSpline add node error and others fixings. Uncomented WITH_MESH; By, Jabier.

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mesh branch test
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi to all, i have some free time while compiling and start testing other branch. I start whith mesh branch. Impresionant. Bravo Tav. Maybe some of your work can used for create a mesh based deformation system for images and all other staff in inkscape. Any other branch sugestions? Hi, Jabier.

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New contributor (we have new code!) that we need to help
by Josh Andler 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hey all, I submitted a new "report" based around a patch submitted from the primary developer of Ponyscape (an Inkscape derivative project focused on making life easier for artists interested in creating My Little Pony fan art). Check out the first new patch he has submitted upstream at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1157024 I've talked with him a bit and he's really doing some good work at a rapid pace, but as we know, we don't have the same leeway upstream to add features that may change on a regular basis. So, he sees Ponyscape as a good testing ground to let things have some time to mature and ripen and then he will submit patches upstream. He also doesn't want to step on any toes or anything. That first patch is for a long awaited feature. If others would be willing to test and do some code review, it will help us to establish a tighter relationship with Ted. He's already met the 2 patch requirement and has commit access, but he really wants feedback and to get things right before stuff is committed. My guess is with the amount of divergence and level of changes he makes, this patch vs direct commit paradigm might be around for a while (he has a lot of irons in the fire for new/improved features). My view is that I don't mind doing this side of things provided other devs will be willing to help test and give feedback. Cheers, Josh

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First window opens at UL corner of screen (Linux)?
by mathog 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

One of my test machines is Ubuntu 12.04. Workt there id done remotely, over an SSH tunnel to a Cygwin X11 server, which is running on Windows XP. Whenever a new Inkscape window opens on that linux box (not the pop ups, but the first start and new document windows) that window is placed with its upper left corner exactly at the upper left corner of the screen. As a consequence the top and left parts of the window frame are off the screen. This is inconvenient since it puts the majority of the frame controls where they cannot be accessed. (Clicking once on the bottom of the frame shifts it down a couple of pixels, but that is a very inconvenient thing to have to do for every window.) Windows builds do not do this - the whole frame is within the screen when a window opens. Is the behavior seen on linux the result of some munged up configuration on my one machine, or is that what Inkscape is supposed to do on a linux/unix/OS X environment? If so, could the default start position maybe be changed to be 5 pixels down and to the right, so that there is at least a sliver of the top and side frame available to grab? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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