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gradient fill swap (tooltip?)
by MilesTogoe 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

speaking of tooltips - I can never remember the cntrl key to swap a gradient fill from inside-out to outside-in. I've thought about what would be the best way to do this in the gradient editor or the gradient edit bars but really haven't come up with something good. Maybe an extra button on the type of fill. Maybe dragging the bars from positive to negative would do it or maybe just a tooltip that gives the cntrl key - well worth the dwell :)

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Preferences refactoring - important changes
by Krzysztof Kosiński 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Rev 20019 is a preferences refactoring mega-commit. Most of the changes are there in order to simplify adding a GConf backend soon (I'll get to this after cleaning up in the preferences.xml file and handling enum and color preferences sanely). Here are the most important changes from the developer perspective: 1. Preference path syntax has changed to use a single path and slashes instead of dots as separators. The old syntax was based on the fact that preferences are stored as attributes of XML nodes, which was the reason for separation of the two path parameters. The new syntax uses a familiar file system metaphor, and will simplify adding GConf and possibly other backends, like the Mac OS X settings files mentioned somewhere here (?). 2. Preferences are handled through the singleton object Inkscape::Preferences. Use its methods instead of the prefs-utils.h functions. They are mostly equivalent. Be sure to use the correct type. 3. There is no inkscape_get_repr() any more. To retrieve a CSS style from preferences, use the getStyle() or getInheritedStyle() methods. 4. You cannot add an XML observer to the prefs document. Instead, use the inner class Inkscape::Preferences::Observer. Additionally, you can't add the same observer to more than one preference path - you'll have to create multiple instances. There are no changes to the preferences.xml format yet. There will be changes to it in the future, to remove things like /options/somerandomoption/value (which should be /options/some_random_option in GConf, or even better /options/some_appropriate_group/some_random_option) but I'll try to handle them transparently. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Preferences-refactoring---important-changes-tp2007233… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Attribute lock ratio proposal
by Patrick 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Like many of you I would like to advance the use of SVG only web design. Unless I am missing something, one problem that exists is the automatic Y-axis scaling of designs with text. Specifically what I am referring to is the fact that the flow text box "dead ends" once it is full unlike an html div that can continue to autosize in the Y-Axis(or X). In addition even if the flow text box did resize other elements in the design would not. If for instance we had a blue square for a background and some text in the center then the blue box would also need to resize to prevent the text from flowing past the bottom of it. My programming skills are not up to standard with the rest of you but if you would like, I could hack together a proof of concept in Python, if it was of value someone could re-do it in C and you folks could figure out a where and how to use it in the GUI. By counting line numbers and the pixel height of the letters, I should be able to calculate the size the flow text box should be and then I could use those attributes to resize other attributes. Am I missing something? Is this a dumb idea? -Patrick

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documentation effort
by unknown＠example.com 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

Hi all, (cc. Inkscape devel, maybe there are some documentation wizzards out there) I've started a bit of documentation work. The Doxyfile configuration file for doxygen has been updated to the latest version. I've also made some tweaks that I found useful, or want to try a bit. First hour I am using doxygen so... Go to lib2geom's root and run doxygen. Then, you should get doc/html/index.html, which is the homepage of the generated documentation. As you can see, there is a lot to do. Please read a bit of the doxygen manual if you want to contribute a lot. Note 1: Doxygen can generate nice equations: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/formulas.html Put your LaTeX equations between a pair of "\f$" commands: \f$ x = 1 \f$ Note 2: Doxygen makes use of special commands you can put in your code, such as: /** \brief Scales this vector to make it a unit vector (within rounding error). * * The current version tries to handle infinite coordinates gracefully, * but it's not clear that any callers need that. * * \pre \f$this \neq (0, 0)\f$ * \pre Neither component is NaN. * \post \f$-\epsilon<\left|this\right|-1<\epsilon\f$ */ void Point::normalize() { ... It is worth checking out other commands like \param, \see and \return. Note 3: The documentation is filled with "Geom::" namespace. I have not yet figured out how to tell doxygen to only document the Geom:: namespace and leave all other things (like std!!!!?!??!) out. Note 4: Doxygen accepts two command styles: \pre and @pre. They can be mingled without a problem I think, but shall we try to use the slash? \file, \brief, etc. Note 5: I'll be adding a lot of empty template documentation comments, so you don't have to think much about how to add documentation. This way, many people can help without much knowledge of doxygen. Note 6: We should get a server to run this every day and put it on the web somewhere! (including a tar so people can download it?) Cheers, Johan

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lpe/verbs
by Alexandre Prokoudine 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hi, Can live path effects have verbs and would it be reasonable at all? Alexandre

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Spiro & "piecewise clothoid curves"
by Bill Baxter 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Saw this paper at SBIM 2008. Sketching Piecewise Clothoid Curves http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mccrae/clothoid/ It may be very similar to how Spiro is implemented, but last time I looked at Spiro I couldn't find any sort of an algorithmic description. Anyway, the approach presented by this paper seems pretty simple and logical to me, so maybe it could suggest some ideas for Spiro. Or not. It's a good read either way. The video is nice too. --bb

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 20,000!
by Bob Jamison 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

And of course: http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape20001-0810171634.7z -----Original Message----- >From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> >Sent: Oct 17, 2008 9:45 AM >To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1798...> >Cc: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] 20,000! > >Indeed! it's absa'fookin'tastic'a'licious. And any inkscape developer at >USD will get free drinks from me. > >2008/10/16 Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1798...>: >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:47:34PM -0700, Josh Andler wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> I think it's worth noting that Inkscape has passed the 20,000 commit >>> mark. Wow! >>> >>> Johan, nice that it was a refactoring commit! :) >> >> Wow, congrats again everyone! >> >> Bryce >> > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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20,000!
by Josh Andler 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hey all, I think it's worth noting that Inkscape has passed the 20,000 commit mark. Wow! Johan, nice that it was a refactoring commit! :) Cheers, Josh

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inkboard
by monroy-lopez 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hello. I have been trying out Inkboard without much success. Sorry about being so vague but I haven't noticed a pattern. It just... doesn't work :( I'm wondering... what's the status of Inkboard? In case it's just my configuration, this was the set-up: Inkscape 0.46-r5 on Gentoo. Two computers were connecting to gristle.org. Connecting (and sometimes chatting) works without problems. So far, I have not been able to share a canvas... Best wishes, ivan

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icons
by unknown＠example.com 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hi all, Inkscape on Windows has had this warning for a looong time now: (inkscape.exe:2628): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'edit-select-all'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases The select-all icon is displayed correctly in the menu, but is not displayed in the toolbar. I've been trying to get rid of this warning/error; and as a result I think I've found some legacy dead code concerning icons. Are /src/ui/icons.h and icons.cpp ever used sensibly? The only one calling to these files is edit-widget.cpp. If I remove that call "Icons::init();", nothing changes for me. (all icons are displayed correctly, except for the select all icon in the toolbar) the code in similar files seems very old and not used: stock-items.cpp stock.h Who can tell me more about these files? I am planning on deleting them. Thanks, Johan

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