July 2013 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

[CAD] Status report
by Sebastian Götte 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Hi, the last few days I dug myself into connector-context.cpp, making that thing compatible with the routing changes I did last week. So far, this has proven quite a task and I am not done yet. A snapshot of the current changes (not yet compiling since I'm midways in it) can be found on launchpad[0]. The main missing parts (apart from actually connecting everything back together after ripping it apart) are fitting g_signal and sigc++ together and getting all the rainbow-colored curves right. I'll follow up if I have any questions. Best regards, Sebastian [0] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~h-e-6/inkscape/connector-wip/files

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Helping with translations in staging.inkscape.org
by Guiu Rocafort 28 Jul '13

28 Jul '13

Hi ! I would like to help with the translations of the staging website. Do I need a Django account for helping with that here ? ( http://staging.inkscape.org/admin/ ) Can someone create an account for me ? Thank you Guiu Rocafort -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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[Units] Removal of SPUnit and SPMetric
by Matthew Petroff 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

After spending a few days reading GTK+/gtkmm documentation, I was able to make good progress and have completely eliminated SPUnit and SPMetric from the code base. I'm a few weeks behind schedule but hope to finish the refactor before the end of the month. http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2013/07/22/removal-of-spunit-and-spmetric/ -Matthew

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[Recolor] Fetching number of objects selected
by Arshdeep Singh 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hi, I need to get the number of selected objects on the canvas. I was using the following code: GSList const *items = selection->itemList(); int selObj = g_slist_length (const_cast<GSList*>(items)); the const_cast was required because: guint <http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-Basic-Types.html#guint> g_slist_length <http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-Singly-Linked-Lists.html#g-slist-length> (GSList <http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/glib/glib-Singly-Linked-Lists.html#GSList> *list); If I comment out the g_slist_length command, there is no runtime error. And Inkscape run's perfect. In this scenario, what can I do to get the length of the GSList ? -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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[Inkscape- Devel][Recolor] Default Arguments Compiling Error
by Arshdeep Singh 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hi, I have been trying to write a function with a default argument. The function: void recolor_wheel_nodes_init(GtkWidget *widget , int obj_list_size = RECOLOR_MAX_OBJECTS ) { ..... } This gives the following error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '=' token Aren't default arguments allowed in GTK ? I bet I've seen them at a few places in the codebase before. -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Handling missing point attribute in input SVG
by Tomasz Boczkowski 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hello, Since it is my first post here, I would like to introduce myself. I'm CS student interested in FLOSS software and C++ development. I would like to contribute to Inkscape to raise my programming skills and do something good this year. I've begun by solving bug #1202753. For polygon elements in input file, that have empty or no "points" attribute SPShape::curve field is NULL. According to comment in sp-polygon.cpp:125 this should not be the case. When points="", sp_polygon_set does not initialize SPShape::curve. Comment in sp-polygon.cpp:169 refers to W3C note: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/implnote.html#ErrorProcessing. How should this situation be handled in document tree? Regards, Tomasz Boczkowski

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RDF nodes
by Markus Engel 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

Hi there, I have not been in for quite a while, but now I've got some time to spend on inkscape again! :) I just looked at this RDF thing and I'm wondering whether it should rather derive from SPObject than being so "separated"? I mean, one document has one metadata node and that should have exactly one rdf node in it, shouldn't it? Currently, RDF nodes do not have any counterpart in the object tree... Btw, do you plan on merging the gsoc results before 0.49? Regards, Markus

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Making a Windows binary
by unknown＠example.com 24 Jul '13

24 Jul '13

Dear Inkscape developers, I am working on a variant of Inkscape (well, "fork" but with no hostile intent towards such a great project) and while it runs and compiles just file on my Linux box, I haven't managed to make a Windows binary. I tried the native build on Win32 route but `pygobject` is needed (`pygobject.h not found`) for this particular variant. Basically, I think if I just add `pygobject` to the `devlibs`, everything will work out fine but I have no idea how to do this and I was hoping to get a quick answer from one of you since you already know your way around the codebase. If its something easy, feel free to skip the rest of this message which contains details of what I tried. I don't know the first thing about adding the needed paths for cross-compiling with `i586-mingw32msvc-g++` so I failed pretty quickly there (setting environment variables such as CXX worked fine but `make` then failed to find `libpng`). So I tried building on a (shared) Windows machine using MinGW. `buildtool.cpp` compiled fine (with a warning) and running it started the build process with no apparent problem (it didn't recognize the -j flag though) until it didn't find `pygobject.h`, which is obviously missing. I then installed Python and pygobject (using the PyGTK all in one bundle) but that didn't help (pygobject.h is missing), probably because those are runtime libraries with no header files. The entire goal of making such a build is so that I can get some testers. So I'm also happy to hear other options. (I haven't tried a Mac build yet since I don't have access to such a machine to test the output binary.) Thanks for your time (both in making Inkscape what it is and maybe answering my question).

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-web what the next set of pages?
by Jared Meidal 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

I think I'm hearing it be helpful if blueprints were created of the staging webpages, to use as scratchpads and landing sites for arrangement of content goals. I have made blueprints before, but if this would be helpful I'm happy to work on it. I'm asking for clarification because I don't want to clutter up launchpad with posts that are not toward the vision that's desired. --Jared

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Inkscape-web what the next set of pages?
by Leo Jackson 23 Jul '13

23 Jul '13

Hello Inkscape-web developers, Do we have a place to list the next items to be done; I can see a lot of pages we can move. Are we putting them on the Wiki as a Roadmap or Google Doc or something. Regards, Leo Jackson

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