From Kamalpreet Grewal Sat May 21 08:58:32 2016
From: Kamalpreet Grewal
To: inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tracking property value source
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:27:44 +0530
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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong(a)...8...> wrote:
>> I have been seeing the current CSS support taking in consideration
>> the
>> process of tracking the source of the property value of each object
>> property.
>>
>> We know the styles are added to 'style' attribute immediately on
>> creation. Besides one can modify any attribute's value via the XML
>> editor after altering the values in its right panel and clicking the
>> 'Set' button. The modified value is saved and reflected in the
>> drawing. And on opening the file in text editor, everything is
>> alright.
>
> Correct
>
>> Next I merge the styles of the object via 'Stylesheet' in Extensions
>> to a stylesheet, save it and open it in text editor, same attributes
>> and values are saved in <style>.....</style> tags.
>
> Yes.
>
>> But now when I modify any attribute's value in XML editor, 'style'
>> attribute and drawing are working right but the values are not
>> updated
>> in the stylesheet. Is this what I have to fix to track the source of
>> values?
>
> Basically, yes. Relying on an extension to create and manage style
> sheets is not a good idea. It is very limiting as to what can be done
> and it requires manual intervention.

The current implementation that writes styles to the saved svg file,
is it all implemented in style-internal.h? Numerous flags have been
used with different combinations. I have been able to understand a
small portion of the workflow.

It would be helpful if you point me in some direction so that I can
proceed further quickly.

-- 
Kamalpreet Kaur Grewal
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From Kamalpreet Grewal Sat May 21 09:12:59 2016
From: Kamalpreet Grewal
To: inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tracking property value source
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:42:13 +0530
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On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Kamalpreet Grewal
<grewalkamal005(a)...400...> wrote:
> The current implementation that writes styles to the saved svg file,
> is it all implemented in style-internal.h? Numerous flags have been
> used with different combinations. I have been able to understand a
> small portion of the workflow.
>
> It would be helpful if you point me in some direction so that I can
> proceed further quickly.

Being more precise, I have been studying code from style-internal.h
and style.h. style-internal has been derived from the latter.

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Kamalpreet Kaur Grewal
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