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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Planning for 0.37 goal
by bulia byak 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

> >As for the grid dialog, why separate dialog? Is it so big and complex it won't fit into the Grid tab of the current ctrl-shift-d dialog? > > > > > It's not big, in fact it is simpler. It's just that my changes mean > that I have to restructure the grid representation and it would be > easier to get right using C++, which is our planned language anyway. > It's not a separate dialog, so in fact my first step will probably be to > port the whole ctrl-shift-d dialog to gtkmm to get a feel for how things > work. Great! In the DialogsReorganization plan, the former "document settings" dialog is to be merged with the ctrl-shift-d too - its content should go on the Page tab. Assuming nobody objects to this idea, if you implement it too along with gtkmmization, that would be fantastic. Also, in a past milestone, there's a mention of a new export dialog. What's its status? Can we do it in gtkmm too? > Btw, I don't have close boxes on my dialogs (see attached png) > > My window manager is sawfish (default). Hmm, is this a case of the lack-of-decoration-on-transient-windows that we discussed some time ago? Or can it be fixed simply by adding a hint when the window is created? I'll try to see what can be done about that. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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utest
by Bryce Harrington 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

utest.inc 0. Very straightforward and basic testing. 1. Needs a copyright/licensing statement 2. Needs a README 3. Add doxygen comments for each function 4. Assert for NULL const char* inputs 5. strncpy character strings (line 20) 6. Maybe consider 't_' as the prefix for testing functions instead of 'utest_"? Might make it more concise and eye catching? repr-action-test.c 1. Document what it's doing in each stanza so if people use this as an example, it'll explain what's being done and why. Looks like a good start all around. Nice straightforward system with the basic capabilities. We can build on it as we learn more about testing. Bryce

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Inkscape Subsystem Block Diagram
by Bryce Harrington 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Mental and I put together this top-level block diagram of the Inkscape application today. http://www.inkscape.org/doc/ It identifies the 10 main "pieces" that make up Inkscape, what files belong to each of them, and roughly how they dovetail together. The main motivation for drawing this is to provide the team with a set of groupings that we can use to take a 'divide and conquer' approach to large efforts such as unit tests, documentation, or code style alterations. The original SVG is checked into CVS in inkscape/doc/. Bryce

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fontproblem 0.36cvs win32
by unknown＠example.com 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi, I have a svg file that looks different in sodipodi and inkscape. The current inkscape doesn't show the correct font. Look at the pics in the attachement. This file was written in Webdraw and by hand. And yes I can change the font-attributes with the dialog. I have inkscape 0.36cvs on a win2K and gtk runtime 2.2.4.1. Thanks, Adib.

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Re: Planning for 0.37 goal
by bulia byak 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

One dialog we'll likely need soon is the Layers. Ask Mental when he thinks the code will be ready for creating a UI. As for the grid dialog, why separate dialog? Is it so big and complex it won't fit into the Grid tab of the current ctrl-shift-d dialog? -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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saving files
by Robert Crosbie 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

I have fixed the problem with the save dialog dropping back a directory each time you "Save as", but it seems the system module is not saving the the docname, docbase and a lot of other attributes to the file. This means that inkscape keeps prompting you for the file name to save as every time you save. Opening a file that alrady has the sodipodi:docname tag doesn't seem to have the same problems. Perhaps someone who is familiar with the open/save modules could have a look at it. Ted maybe? Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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Re: Inkscape and Glade? [was Re: [Inkscape-devel] keyboard issues]
by bulia byak 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

First, a disclaimer: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BuliaByak Now, I have no experience with either Gtkmm or Glade, and I don't know much of C++, but whatever makes the life of developer easier is great IMHO. From what I see on screenshots, Glade is a really nice thing, and I like the general approach of creating interfaces in a declarative manner (in XML) with code being generated automatically. Currently my experience with Inkscape's UI code is rather horrible, and whatever helps us to make it saner should be seriously considered. In fact, I'm afraid to even think about DialogsReorganization until we have some nicer tool for dialog layout. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Planning for 0.37 goal
by Bryce Harrington 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Currently we have 'Convert to Gtkmm' as the goal for 0.37. However, I think this is a bit ambitious for us to do at present. I'd like to propose we reduce the scope of the Gtkmm work for the next release. Instead of converting the entire codebase, I'd like to suggest we focus on creating one Gtkmmifying dialog, such as Nathan's grid dialog or perhaps implementing Tom Ingham's new object properties mockup (opinions?) This would allow us to put more focus into doing the C++ conversion in an orderly fashion. I think if we start converting to C++ willy nilly we may get ourselves into a royal mess, but if we focus on subsystems serially, one at a time, we can achieve better quality. How does this sound? Bryce

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DOM SVG Canvas
by Ian Grant 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

I want to write a mapping/GIS application. I was hoping to find an 'SVG canvas' library that I could use to render the graphics. Librsvg is not ideal because it simply renders the entire SVG document at once. Rather I am looking for something that watches a DOM tree and renders changes as they occur. Do Inkscape or sodipodi have any such internal structure, or could they be used as a basis for such a thing? Seems like people are going to be writing a lot of low-level SVG rendering code otherwise.

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BORKEN merge
by MenTaLguY 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Just a quick heads-up; I've merged the "BORKEN" UI branch to HEAD. It still needs a lot of refinements, but I think it's far along enough now to merge. Have a look at Bulia's recent post and on the Wiki for more stuff we can do. -mental

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