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text refactored
by bulia byak 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

I just finished committing a huge patch from Fred which refactors the old sp-text into smaller pieces. The text system now became more powerful, about 10% faster, with less arbitrary limitations, and much more manageable. This is the foundation on which the GUI for the recently added flowtext and texpath will be built, as well as a necessary prerequisite for implementing text selection and styling of arbitrary text fragments. As of now, almost everything that used to work, works. Known exceptions: - letterspacing adjustment from keyboard does not work - kerning adjustments from keyboard does not work in non-latin text - keyboard movement in non-latin text is wrong (2 arrow keypresses needed to move one char) - the End key jump in the last line is off by one char These problems will be fixed soon. Of course there are likely other bugs too. Please test text editing and rendering thoroughly and report the results here. For now we're only interested in things that used to work until today but are broken now; if you discover something which also did not work in 0.39, submit to the bug tracker.

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undo before finalizing
by Robert Crosbie 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

This may just be unexpected behavior. While drawing a line, If I select Undo before I've finished that line, it will undo the previous action, or remove the previous object. Now if I finalize the line I'm drawing and select Redo, it doesn't do anything. The previous action/object it undid is now lost. I was expecting that if I selected Undo while I was drawing a line, it would cancel or remove the line I was working on. Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ Powerful Parental Controls Let your child discover the best the Internet has to offer. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht… Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN� Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*.

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gc-awareness
by MenTaLguY 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

I've just reworked SPRepr to derive from Inkscape::Refcounted, so it is garbage-collector-aware (I've already done this with NRObject). What I mean by "gc-aware" is that it is safe to put pointers to garbage-collected objects in them, and that they are managed by the garbage collector. Normally gc-aware objects should derive from Inkscape::GC::Object or Inkscape::GC::FinalizedObject. GC::Object is the most lightweight of the base classes; it has no overhead, but destructors will not be run when it is collected (not a problem if there are no nontrivial destructors). GC::FinalizedObject (deriving from GC::Object) runs its destructors before it is collected, but there is additional overhead for tracking the destructors and a C++ vtable. Inkscape::Refcounted (which derives from FinalizedObject) is the heaviest of the "gc-aware" base classes, as it adds the overhead of an "Anchor" pointer and a refcount. The refcount is initialized to 1. It's also special among managed classes in that it allows you to safely keep references to Inkscape::Refcounted objects in non-gc-aware classes; all you need to do treat them like normal refcounted objects; increment their refcount with Inkscape::Refcounted::claim(), and decrement it with Inkscape::Refcounted::release(). As a result, an Inkscape::Refcounted will never be collected out from under you so long as its refcount is nonzero. The intent is that Inkscape::Refcounted will provide an interface between non-gc-aware code (e.g. classes derived from GObject or gtkmm's Glib::Object), and lighter-weight gc-aware objects. (it's safe to store pointers to gc-managed objects in automatic, global or static variables, as well as function parameters, so this is only a concern for storing pointers in dynamically-allocated objects) By the way, we can't simply make glib use the boehm allocator, since glib is used to allocate pixmaps, and RGBA pixmaps look like huge arrays of pointers. Maybe we could get away with it, but I think that'd be pushing our luck with a conservative collector. -mental

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textFlow Example
by Jon Phillips 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

I made a full page letter overview of inkscape using the new textFlow features. I wrote it in a text editor. Once a UI is done for this feature, the usefulness of inkscape is going to scale incredibly!!! http://www.inkscape.org/doc/index.php I also split the documentation into user and developer on the website and updated the news. Jon -- Jon Phillips USA.PH.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu/) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu/)

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breakage!
by bulia byak 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Current CVS is unusable. 1. Start, press ctrl+n. Tools icons partially disappear on the new window. Open fill&stroke. At first only the stroke color tab icon is lost. Close the dialog, open again. Now all icons disappear. 2. Draw anything with the bezier tool. You get: ** (inkscape:19152): CRITICAL **: file sp-item.cpp: line 774 (NR::Matrix i2anc_affine(const SPObject*, const SPObject*)): assertion `object != NULL && ancestor != NULL' failed ** (inkscape:19152): CRITICAL **: file sp-item.cpp: line 774 (NR::Matrix i2anc_affine(const SPObject*, const SPObject*)): assertion `object != NULL && ancestor != NULL' failed Please fix ASAP. P.S. Please try to better test things before committing.

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session id bug squashed
by Jon Phillips 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

FYI (cuz this is not on the roadmap): I fixed the website Session ID bug on both inkscape and open clip art library. That should give a bit of boost to web traffic and less errors when moving between wiki and web pages. Jon -- Jon Phillips USA.PH.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu/) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu/)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] compiling inkscape
by Tuukka Pasanen 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Felix Rabe wrote: hi, >> What do you folks think? Was there already a discussion on shifting the >> Inkscape build environment to something else on Jabber / this list / >> somewhere else? What was the result? > > We've not discussed moving away from automake afaik. I doubt we'd ever > seriously consider that due to issues such as the ones you've outlined > about newer solutions being too new. Probably the best solution is for > some of us to just to bite the bullet and learn it. I know at least a > couple people have been doing this. This is definitely one of the > weaker skill areas in Inkscape, so anyone interested in developing those > skills would be very encouraged to do so. > > Bryce > Autotools are just pain. I've been dealing with them in my 'REAL' work. They just suck most of the time but they can also be your best friends (When crosscompiling).. I don't see necesery to move away from autotools but inkscape build system should be cleaned a much. Example those makefile_insert stuff should gogo and that autogenerate depencies just make it worse.. There should be one person whose taking care that build is working (buildmanager?). I don't know if there such person in inkscape project. If someone wants to investigate alternatives there is SCONS (http://www.scons.org/) I haven't used it but seen big projects to get simple buildsystems with it (example http://www.blender.org).. it should work on MacOSX and Windoze also. Tuukka

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Can`t build inkscape from cvs :-/
by Makurin Roman 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! I can`t build inkscape from cvs on my gentoo box. Here my configuration: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 dev-libs/libsigc++-2.0.3 sys-devel/gcc-3.3.4-r1 sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040619 x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.4 dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.4.3 How can I fix this bug? - -- Registered Linux User: 355904 ICQ: 105266647 JID: drolyk@...189... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBFAOUufAZCWBpz4kRAjAJAKCQDcgiqvmZbpbLjZy9vesTE0bc3ACfeqaa WpB5XKlPg0e4SmRBXPsrXJQ= =md1/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Theming
by Karl Ove Hufthammer 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Is there any work currently being done on making Inkscape themeable like other Gnome/GTK apps? There's mention of this on "http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GtkMMification": As part of doing the migration to gtkmm you should try and get icon theming working properly. While not directly related to the port I think fixing it when redoing the GUI anyway is a good time. There are a couple of things to keep in mind. For icon shared by Inkscape with all GTK+ and GNOME apps (file new, file open) etc. you should just use the standard icons. Look at gedit for sample code of how it is done. For icons that Inkscape shares with other drawing apps like The Gimp you should adopt the stock icons defined by The Gimp (floodfill is a good example here). For the remaining icons you would need to define them yourself, good thing here would be to make sure Sodipodi could use the same stock icons definitions so that when someone icon themes Sodipodi or Inkscape both apps picks up the correct icons. -- Uraeus -- Karl Ove Hufthammer

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Startup?
by Bob Jamison 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

This morning (Monday) I have been having trouble running CVS inkscape. Even after doing clean checkout/builds, the resulting inkscape does not show a GUI, even after 5 mins. Has someone modified the startup? Bob

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