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The GPL'd database for Loads of Linux Links now includes http://www.inkscape.org/ (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:33:16 -0800 (PST) From: Barbara E. Irwin <beirwin@...106...> To: bryce@...58..., buliabyak@...58..., mental@...107..., njh@...58... Subject: The GPL'd database for Loads of Linux Links now includes http://www.inkscape.org/ I've recently included the Inkscape website on the Loads of Linux Links project website, which can be found here: http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/index.html Complete details of this project can be found here: http://loll.sourceforge.net/announce-1.1.0.html I have classified the website under: Graphics. Thanks for the link! Barbara ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Barbara Irwin beirwin@...106... Victoria, B.C. Canada The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

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absolute path
by bulia byak 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

Regarding this bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=860202&group_id=93… does anyone else think that document.cpp must store the absolute path already, i.e. instead of document->uri = g_strdup (uri); in sp_document_create we should have something like document->uri = abs_path (uri, base); That would fix the above bug. If so what standard function is there for creating an absolute path? I could not find one in glib. _________________________________________________________________ Shop online for kids� toys by age group, price range, and toy category at MSN Shopping. No waiting for a clerk to help you! http://shopping.msn.com

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] some questions/suggestions
by bulia byak 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

>1. Is there an easy way of creating a closed Bezier curve? Of course, >one can create an open one and then connect endpoints, but it is a long >process... In freehand and bezier tools, just press 'a'. It will then display anchors at both ends of the curve being created, and by drawing to these anchors you will close the curve. And closing a curve in node editor is in fact not difficult at all. >2. When copying an object, the copied object is put at exactly the same >position as the original. Am I the only one who finds it inconvenient? I >frequently need to have several copies of the same object in different >places my drawings, and selecting one of the two objects which are >literally on top of each other is awkward, especially if the objects are >small. I'd much prefer that "paste" creates a floating object, which >follows mouse cursor, and you click to show where to put it. What do the >usability experts say about such an idea? Actually you CAN move a pasted or duplicated object with arrow keys, because it's selected. Press ctrl-d and then arrows, it's very convenient imho. But I plan to change the paste command so it by default pastes in the center of the visible canvas, and a variant of this command (e.g. with shift or alt) pastes to where the object was copied from. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] handling statusbar messages
by bulia byak 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

>No, it just means that status bar messages need to be set from places >that know which SPView they're operating on behalf of (if any), or less >likely that an SPView needs to be passed in somewhere that it currently >isn't. > >Maybe we need to step back a moment though -- which g_warnings do you >want to turn into status bar messages, "Non-printable character" >and why? Because the user needs some feedback to understand why a character he typed in (most likely in Unicode mode, but not necessarily) did not appear on the screen. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/features&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin…

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C++ conversion
by MenTaLguY 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

The switch to C++ is essentially complete. Please do a clean checkout. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] handling statusbar messages
by bulia byak 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

>On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:19, bulia byak wrote: > > Here's a quick question. I want to display the warnings on the statusbar > > (instead of g_warning) in sp_text_insert in sp-text.c. What I have at >this > > point is just an SPText object. How do I go from it to SPView? I see no > > members in _SPText that I could usefully -> to. > >There is not a 1:1 relationship between SPTexts and SPViews. Which means, we need to set the status of the global current desktop, after all? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/photos&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjo…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] handling statusbar messages
by bulia byak 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

>The easy way would be to have sp_verb_get_action() create SPActions on a >per-SPView basis (currently only one SPAction is created for each verb, >globally). > >An SPView * can be stored in each SPAction, so the SPAction::perform() >callback will "know" which SPView * (i.e. SPDesktop *) it applies to. > >Voila. No more need for using SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP in verbs. > >sp_verb_get_action() is only used in a very few places, so the change >should be very non-intrusive, but it will (among other things) finally >let us implement per-desktop tool states correctly. Sounds good. Please add this to the roadmap :) Here's a quick question. I want to display the warnings on the statusbar (instead of g_warning) in sp_text_insert in sp-text.c. What I have at this point is just an SPText object. How do I go from it to SPView? I see no members in _SPText that I could usefully -> to. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/features&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] sp_status_display()/sp_status_clear()
by bulia byak 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

> static SPDrawAnchor * > sp_draw_anchor_new (SPDrawContext *dc, SPCurve *curve, gboolean start, >gdouble dx, gdouble dy) > { > SPDrawAnchor *a; > > sp_status_display(g_strdup_printf ("Creating anchor at %g %g", >dx, dy)); > ... > return a; > } > >Admittedly, the "original" would have been overly complex. The thing >is, I think we have to be careful not to simplify the wrong things. > >For example, why did we need the last parameter to sp_view_set_status() >anyway? It's never actually used. It seems a good candidate to remove. Done. >Also, shifting half the burden of memory management off is not a bad >thing, but why not get both ends? Otherwise to people other than >authors of sp_status_display(), it looks like a memory leak. Sure, I would have done that myself, if only I knew how to define functions with variable number of arguments :) Now that you've shown me how to do that, I'll be able to avoid such things. I see you could not wait and removed my functions replacing them with yours :) Sorry I'll now overwrite your changes, replacing them with still better functions that have time control (but implemented using your _statusf internally). Right now I have one problem that I need help with. The stupid gtk_timeout_add can only pass one argument to the function it calls, but I need two arguments to remove the message: the statusbar * and the message_id. I tried packing them into a struct and passing a pointer to the struct, but here are two problems: - if the struct is static, things break when a new timed message is displayed while a previous one's timeout has not yet elapsed, because the new call of the message display function will overwrite the static struct contents, and only the last message will be removed and the previous one will stuck forever; - if the struct is local to the message display function, it does not work at all, because its content is lost when the function is over. What I want is a way to pack the contents of the struct itself, not a pointer to it, to pass to gtk_timeout_add. But it won't convert a struct into a gpointer that this function requires. What to do? A workaround might be to pass only message_id (converted to gpointer) and leave the statusbar stored in a global variable. But that is ugly and unreliable. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] handling statusbar messages
by bulia byak 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

>On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 23:42, bulia byak wrote: > > But GTK already has the stack of statusbar messages, why duplicate it? I > > think it's better to make two signals instead, one for push and one for >pop. > >I may have talked about using the GTK statusbar stack earlier, but then >I looked further into the GTK statusbar API and it's really pretty >awkward (IMO). How do you feel about it? Don't know - OK for me. I use push to display and _remove to remove a message with a specific id (i.e. if it was already replaced by some other message, nothing changes). >To that end, I want to keep the signal (or at least some kind of >notification callback) to maintain that interface boundary. OK, I kept the one signal, but added an argument msec (how long to stay the message, forever if zero). > > OK, I promise to never use SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP anymore :) Instead I will > > create several functions that accept different kinds of "current things" > > (such as selection, event context, desktop) and do different >->...->...-> > > chains to always arrive at the desktop widget that corresponds to that > > argument object (if possible, without signals). Then in different parts >of > > the code I'll have to call different functions, depending on what object >I > > have at hand. Would you approve of that plan? > >Well, at present SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP is a necessary evil in a few places >-- but I'd certainly appreciate if you could minimize its usage. I would not call them "a few". For example, all global verbs use it, because I see no other way for them to perfom their action, given they can be called anywhere, e.g. in a dialog. >Adding a method to SPEventContext to set the status message for that >event context's desktop would be good too (maybe something printf-like >... e.g. sp_event_context_set_statusf (SPEventContext *context, const >gchar *format, ...)?). Will do that now. All tools will display a helpful default message when sqitched to. _________________________________________________________________ Don�t worry if your Inbox will max out while you are enjoying the holidays. Get MSN Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

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C++ conversion
by MenTaLguY 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

Just a quick heads-up that the C++ conversion is happening tonight (if all goes smoothly). -mental

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