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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Dockable dialog bugs
by unknown＠example.com 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

> -----Original Message----- > From: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > Sent: woensdag 16 januari 2008 10:00 > To: Gustav Broberg > Cc: inkscape > Subject: RE: [Inkscape-devel] Dockable dialog bugs > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gustav Broberg [mailto:broberg@...370...] > > Sent: woensdag 16 januari 2008 4:00 > > To: Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Dockable dialog bugs > > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:17:45PM +0100, > J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... > > wrote: > > > OK, I just came up with a solution for our problems and > > tested it on > > > one of the parameter types. This seems to work very very > nicely and > > > can be generalized to all "registered widgets". I will try > > to do this asap. > > > > That's great news Johan! After your changes I'm not able to > reproduce > > #179982 anymore. Me neither, marked it as fixed. > > Do you think you'll be able to rewrite the remaining widgets and > > completely deprecate the old RegisteredWdg in time for the release? > > > > Just tell me if I should prepare a Plan B, e.g. to make just the > > Document Properties and LPE dialog singleton as you suggested... I rewrote all widgets that LPE uses at this moment. This fixes the LPE dialog. The document properties window seem fixed (with a low prio bug still lingering), but there is a memory leak now until all registeredwidgets have been recoded. It is a very straightforward simple task to fix them, volunteers? (A nice way to get more familiar with the widgets!) Regards, Johan

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Valgrind Inkscape
by Joel Holdsworth 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi Again, I just tried running inkscape in linux with valgrind for the first time ever, and it reveals some interesting results (attached). It seems that libgc's malloc function has a bug where the library will operate using uninitialised data. "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)" It might be quite cool to have a bit of a proper play with valgrind. It seems really quite hi-tech, and I'm hopeful it will be able to reveal quite a few memory related bugs. Joel

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Function plotter and notebooks
by Ted Gould 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Attached I have a Function plotter INX file without the notebooks. The dialog is ugly, very ugly. But can someone check to see if it works on Win32 without the notebooks? Thanks, Ted

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cannot compile r17091
by bulia byak 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

configure.ac:12: option `tar-pax' not recognized what do I have to upgrade? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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strange behaviour on feTile
by Felipe Sanches 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Today I have tried to implement the feTile filter primitive renderer. What surprises me is that the renderer class does not seem to be even instantiated when I try to render the filters-tile-01-b.svg test from the W3C SVG 1.1 test suite. ( http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/W3C_SVG/htmlInkscapeHarness/full-filters-t… ) in this SVG test, the filter effect is applied to an empty <g> node. There is a comment about it:  <g filter="url(#feTileFilter)"/> I think that this is causing the problem: a void node would not invoke the renderer requiring an area to be rendered. Anyone can give me some hint? my current feTile implementation is attached to this message Juca

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Add to a blueprint?
by Rob Antonishen 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

How can I add comments to this blueprint at launchpad: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/richer-extension-parameters I wanted to add a suggestion for an angle selector widget, like the one proposed for GIMP here: http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/2007/12/angle-widget-for-motion-blur.ht… -Rob A>

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inkscape gallery
by Alexandre Prokoudine 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi, I really have no idea why users love writing their ideas for us to their Talk pages in the wiki, but here goes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User_talk:Planctus Alexandre

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Adding patterns to patterns.svg
by Rob Antonishen 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Is there a trick to adding new patterns to the patterns.svg file? I created a new user pattern in an image using the objects to pattern option and saved the file. I then cut out the <pattern></pattern> in a text editor and added it into patterns.svg. It shows up in the pattern drop list, but does not actually work. Here is the pattern I created: <pattern patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="40" height="40" patternTransform="translate(0,0)" id="pattern6158"> <path sodipodi:nodetypes="cccccccccccccccccccc" id="path6099" d="M 20.5,0.5 C 20.5,13.531254 40.5,13.531255 40.5,0.5 M 0.5,0.5 C 0.5,13.531254 20.5,13.531255 20.5,0.5 M 30.5,10.5 C 30.5,17.015628 35.5,20.25 40.5,20.25 M 10.5,10.5 C 10.5,23.531255 30.5,23.531255 30.5,10.5 M 0.5,20.25 C 5.5,20.25 10.5,17.015628 10.5,10.5 M 0.5,20.5 C 0.5,33.531255 20.5,33.531255 20.5,20.5 M 20.5,20.5 C 20.5,33.531255 40.5,33.531255 40.5,20.5 M 30.5,30.40625 C 30.5,36.921878 35.5,40.1875 40.5,40.1875 M 0.5,40.1875 C 5.5,40.1875 10.5,36.921878 10.5,30.40625 M 10.5,30.40625 C 10.5,43.437506 30.5,43.437505 30.5,30.40625" style="opacity:0.9;fill:#ffffff;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:nonzero;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;marker:none;marker-start:none;marker-mid:none;marker-end:none;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-dasharray:none;stroke-dashoffset:0;stroke-opacity:1;visibility:visible;display:inline;overflow:visible;enable-background:accumulate" /> </pattern> Suggestions (or pointers) on what is wrong with this pattern? In the original file it works file as a pattern. One note is that I edited the width and height to allow the strokes to overlap without gaps, but again, it works well as a pattern in the svg document. -Rob A>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Creating guidelines from objects
by Diederik en Rezi 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi Max, Op Vr, 11 januari, 2008 20:04, schreef Maximilian Albert: > I just committed a change to SVN (rev. #17022) which allows the user to > convert rectangles and 3D boxes to a collection of guidelines that are > aligned along these objects' edges. That's indeed a very cool feature! I could have used that today at work :-) I have not checked it out yet though, but I wonder: are the guides aligned with the nodes or with the bounding box? Or is there a way to specify this? I ask this because there are essentially two ways of working: either aligning objects at their visual boundingbox, or at their geometrical bbox (or nodes or stroke center). This distinction is being used in the preferences for the selector tool, and also when snapping. So we need it here also IMO. Diederik

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Dockable dialog bugs
by unknown＠example.com 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hello all, Because an (what I thought) important Inkscape-devel 'paradigm' is no longer valid, there are a lot of bugs concerning dockable dialogs: I am talking about having only a single instance of dialogs. Most widgets that I use (the Registered* widgets) are not designed to be managed by others than the creator I think. (like Gtk::Widget is, by using Gtk::manage) It causes for example this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/179982 How are we going to solve this for 0.46? Regards, Johan

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Frost exceptions status?
by Bryce Harrington 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi all, I believe all frost exception development work should now be done, but would like to doublecheck. If you're on the following list, please reply with a status update: 1. Angled guidelines, by J.B.C.Engelen (DONE): Underlying code is complete, and guidelines are rendering, but it needs a UI to allow manipulating them. 2. Python module packaging (lxml, numpy) for OSX, by jiho (ETA ___): Needs wider testing. Needs someone to build PPC packages. 3. Compilation of lib2geom on OS X 10.3 (Panther), by John Faith (ETA ___): An error is preventing builds for Panther versions of Inkscape. If this can't be resolved before release, the alternative is to drop support for this OS version. 4. Font Spec Implementation, by Gail Carmichael (ETA Dec 27). Refactor patch to include some code review changes by Bulia. Also, the patch needs wider testing. 5. Win32 Uninstaller improvement, by Adib (ETA Jan 3). Fix current installer to not bug user for each changed file. 6. PDF, PS export improvements, by Adib (ETA Jan 3). Implement blur as bitmap, and display a dialog with options for text-to-path, blur-as-bitmap, alpha-as-bitmap. UPDATE: Option dialog for PDF/PS exports using cairo are implemented (PDF1.4 and PS3 only). Text-to-path works, for blur as bitmap need help with converting SPItem from vector to image, alpha as bitmap being done implicitly by Cairo 7. Clone Tiling dialog, by Tavmjong Bah (DONE): Add a few options to Shift, Scaling, and Rotation tabs. (TBD: Bug updating blur via Blur/Opacity tab.) (Also, TBD later: some small changes for default values for turbulence and composite filters.) I'd love to hear that all this work is either done, or being safely postponed for the release. If not, let me know, because we need to close all such work ASAP. Bryce

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Coding review requested
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi all, Today I restructured/recoded some of the 'registered' widget classes. I'd like someone with C++ knowledge to review svnrev. 17065 and perhaps also svnrev. 17069. I understand it might be difficult because knowledge of how Inkscape uses those widgets is required, but still thanks a lot for just the slightest of critical comment. Thanks, Johan

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today's compile error
by bulia byak 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

In file included from ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:31: ./ui/dialog/livepatheffect-editor.h:21:27: error: gtkmm/tooltip.h: No such file or directory ./2geom/path.h:74: warning: 'virtual Geom::Curve* Geom::Curve::reverse() const' was hidden ./2geom/path.h:319: warning: by 'Geom::Curve* Geom::SVGEllipticalArc::reverse(double, double) const' make[2]: *** [ui/dialog/dialog-manager.o] Error 1 please fix :) gcc 4.0.3 -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Contributing to your project
by Timothy Yau 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hello, I'm a 3rd year computing science student and I would like to help out with your project because I think it's really cool, and your 'project of the month' page seems to suggest that newcomers are welcome. I've never worked on an open source project before; could someone please tell me how I can get started? Maybe I could try to do some small bug fixes. Thanks. Timothy

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Printing on XP
by Diederik van Lierop 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi all, So far I haven't been able to print anything useful on Windows XP using recent Inkscape versions. My prints (both at work and at home) are 8.3x to small (=600/72 dpi) and have often large black fills or fully black pages. See for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/166561. Is anyone else experiencing this? I think this is pretty serious and should be milestoned, unless ofcourse I'm the only one experiencing this. This appears to be a Windows-only issue, but I'm coding on Linux so I'm not of much help here. Could someone confirm this and maybe even give Kees a hand? Diederik

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Function Plotter Effect
by Aaron Spike 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Tavmjong Bah wrote: > Could you take a look at the Function Plotter effect? It has got lots > of problems which I can't figure out (it was working at the beginning of > 0.46 development). It seems to me that all the parameters on the Range > and Sampling tab are not working. It appears to be a problem the command line parsing. The command line passed to the script looks sorta like like (from ' '.join(sys.argv)): share\extensions\funcplot.py C:\DOCUME~1\NS\LOCALS~1\Temp\ink_ext_XXXXXX.svgVNX14T --id=rect2363 --tab="sampling" --xstart=-50 --xend=20 --times2pi=true --ybottom=-11.600000381469727 --ytop=24.600000381469727 --samples=180 --isoscale=false --polar=false --funcplotuse= --pythonfunctions= --fofx=sin(-x) --fponum=true --fpofx=x --remove=true --drawaxis=false But Python parses it as: ['share\\extensions\\funcplot.py', 'C:\\DOCUME~1\\NS\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\ink_ext_XXXXXX.svgVNX14T', '--id=rect2363', '--tab="sampling" --xstart=-50 --xend=20 --times2pi=true --ybottom=-11.600000381469727 --ytop=24.600000381469727 --samples=180 --isoscale=false --polar=false --funcplotuse= --pythonfunctions=', '--fofx=sin(-x)', '--fponum=true', '--fpofx=x', '--remove=true', '--drawaxis=false'] And then optparse gets: {'polar': False, 'ytop': 1.0, 'funcplotuse': '', 'drawaxis': False, 'fpofx': 'x', 'ybottom': -1.0, 'ids': ['rect2363'], 'remove': True, 'fofx': 'sin(-x)', 'pythonfunctions': '', 'isoscale': True, 'fponum': True, 'tab': '"sampling" --xstart=-50 --xend=20 --times2pi=true --ybottom=-11.600000381469727 --ytop=24.600000381469727 --samples=180 --isoscale=false --polar=false --funcplotuse= --pythonfunctions=', 'xstart': 0.0, 'xend': 1.0, 'times2pi': True, 'samples': 8} But I think we need to put debug prints in Inkscape to see what the actual command line is that inkscape generates because when I give the same command line options to a simple python script like: import sys print sys.argv I get a properly parsed command line: C:\Documents and Settings\NS\Desktop>cmd_parsing_test.py C:\DOCUME~1\NS\LOCALS~1\Temp\ink_ext_XXXXXX.svgVNX14T --id=rect2363 --tab="sampling" --xstart=-50 --xend=20 --times2pi=true --ybottom=-11.600000381469727 --ytop=24.600000381469727 --samples=180 --isoscale=false --polar=false --funcplotuse= --pythonfunctions= --fofx=sin(-x) --fponum=true --fpofx=x --remove=true --drawaxis=false ['C:\\Documents and Settings\\NS\\Desktop\\cmd_parsing_test.py', 'C:\\DOCUME~1\\NS\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\ink_ext_XXXXXX.svgVNX14T', '--id=rect2363 ', '--tab=sampling', '--xstart=-50', '--xend=20', '--times2pi=true', '--ybottom=-11.600000381469727', '--ytop=24.600000381469727', '--samples =180', '--isoscale=false', '--polar=false', '--funcplotuse=', '--pythonfunctions=', '--fofx=sin(-x)', '--fponum=true', '--fpofx=x', '--remove =true', '--drawaxis=false'] There must be some stray quotes somewhere. I also wonder why the temporary file is no longer the final argument to the script. I think this could screw up scripts with more primitive option parsing. It looks like the revision that I compiled here includes the .svg extension on the temp files. I never noticed that change. And lastly, can anyone tell me why "sampling" is quoted when it is passed to the script? I thought we had done something to address that. Aaron Spike

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Function Plotter
by unknown＠example.com 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Not sure if this is relevant, but the Function Plotter uses a tabbed display, a "notebook" parameter, which could be causing a problem. I have yet to see a successful implementation of a "notebook" parameter Just submitted a bug on this about 30 seconds ago, Bug # https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/183030 Alvin Penner ------[ This message was sent using Vaxxine Webmail ]------ www.vaxxine.com - Niagara's Premier Internet Service Provider

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Inkscape 0.46 About Screen Contest - Voting time!
by Josh Andler 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello all! The submission period for the contest has concluded. Now it is time for the community voting. To find out more and to cast your votes, please visit the following link: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16298574/ We will count votes from the mailing list for people who do not have DA accounts, as we did last time. However, if you have a DA account or wouldn't mind signing up for one, it will make things much easier when it comes to tally time. Good luck everyone! -Josh

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whiteboard continuation
by unknown＠example.com 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Actually whiteboard is not compiled by default, because there is no one to work on it, and then not enough resources to respond to a huge flow of bugreport. After a short discussion on IRC, the idea was, in a first time to know what is the actual state of the whiteboard, to undertand if it usable or if everything has to be throwed or restarted ? : I addeddocumentation on the wiki on how to compile and use it. I started it here : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WhiteBoard If someone found freetime to meet on inkscape whiteboard via jabber and list what work and what don't work today. Depending of the effort done by people able to compile it with the --enable-whitboard option activated the project could continue or be throuwed out of the inkscape trunk. I've myself compiled it, was able to connect to jabber server but don't know other one that have whiteboard enable Inkscape. I will not have time until saturday to test it. If someone can test it with me saturday, I will be happy to share funny crappy drawings. ;) Else if two people have time to test it and report the results on this page, that's good too... Regards, Popolon

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Inkscape Thread Safety
by Joel Holdsworth 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi All, I'm wondering how easy it would be to make the whole inkscape back-end thread safe, so that for example, SVGs can be parsed and rendered from within worker threads. Does anyone have any idea why it's not thread-safe already? The reason I'm asking is because I've noticed a couple of scenarious such as PNG export, and quickly flicking between complex SVG files in the file dialogs, where the whole application locks up, in some cases for many minutes, with no way to cancel. Right now the renderer is required to run in the UI thread - even if it's a "headless" rendering such as in PNG export. That seems odd to me. Any thoughts on this subject? Maybe I should add it as a blueprint in launchpad. Thanks Joel

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Frost status (nearing end)
by Bryce Harrington 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi all, Quick recap of where we're standing today with the release: * Complete frost exception development work. ALMOST MET - PDF/PS Blur as bitmap work is still in progress. Adib is working on this, but needs Simarilius' help. - Two packaging projects are still open (afaik), but they're not blockers for progressing to Freeze * Focus should be on bug fixes, packaging, documentation, and translation work, all of which may be committed to SVN normally. MET - The number of milestoned critical bugs has been reduced to 5, which puts us in a good position for Freeze. - Translation is making good progress, even though we've not hit string freeze yet. - I don't have a good view on how our documentation is at present. I assume it's in an acceptable state. * Gain some candidate submissions for the About Screen contest. MET - Voting concluded today on a number of quite good entries. - This should be wrapping up * Release Notes should be >90% filled in. MET - JonCruz, rejon, and gustav have some sections to fill in - Overview needs fleshed out a bit more * Bug Hunt ALMOST MET - Good progress here; we're nearing our point goal. If each of us can adopt and close one bug, we should be done soon. * Post inkscape-0.46-alpha0.tar.gz NOT MET - Ted has volunteered to package it up and post it soonish.

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Keyboard shortcuts in tooltips?
by Maximilian Albert 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hi, some time ago there was a discussion about adding keyboard shortcuts to the tooltips in the various toolbars (although I can't find the corresponding posts right now). I have done this in my local repository but wanted to ask before committing it to SVN because - I'm not sure if this causes too much overhead for translators - maybe I'm overlooking something about user-specific personal adaptions to shortcuts or localized versions, etc., that makes shortcuts in the tooltips useless for some reason. Just wanted to make sure that this is really desired. Max P.S.: I seem to remember that the consensus was also to display the mnemonic shortcuts in the toolbox (rather than 'F1', 'F2', etc.). I wasn't able to find the location where these are set, though. If this change is agreed upon, too, could someone point me to the corresponding file? Thanks.

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Win32 snapshots
by Bill Baxter 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

What's the canonical location for inkscape win32 snapshots? There seem to be several places to get them from and they aren't quite the same. This snapshot: inkscape-0801090900.7z from here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32-snap/ Will output pdf via Cairo, but text is flipped. (As I reported earlier.) However this snapshot: Inkscape0801091456.7z >From here: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/ Just crashes when you try to output pdf via Cairo. --bb

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help needed: my patch does not link properly
by the Adib 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

hello all, I prepared a patch that should do a blur_as_bitmap. simarilius introduced two new files but it fails on linking. Could please someone check why. The patch is on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/m6b26c006 I already did: ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make clean && make but no luck thx for any coments Adib.

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make dist fails
by theAdib 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

running make dists on current svn fails. This is because of to long filenames in /packaging/macosx/Resources/themes/Clearlooks-Quicksilver-OSX/gtk-2.0/Scrollbars_1 and other files in that directory. The maximum allowed number of characters for the full path is 99. Any solution? Should we use other technology instead of tar? (7zip or zip)? HTH, Adib. ---

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