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URIReference
by Gail Carmichael 05 Mar '08

05 Mar '08

Does our URIReference (used for clones etc) support linking to items in separate files? Gail

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NEW: temporary on-canvas indicators
by unknown＠example.com 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hi Diederik and others, First of all, I am very sorry if I broke compile on Linux, please fix what needs to be fixed, I cannot check if it works! (makefile?) I have just committed a new feature: temporary canvasitems. Now, it is possible to create a canvasitem, and pass it to SPDesktop saying it should be displayed for a certain timelength. When that time has elapsed, the object is automatically deleted. To make a canvasitem temporary, do this: spdesktop->add_temporary_canvasitem(canvasitem, 2000); This will destroy the canvasitem automatically after 2000 milliseconds. One can also prematurely delete the canvasitem (handy for showing snapping). One should do this: Inkscape::Display::TemporaryItem * tempitem; tempitem = spdesktop->add_temporary_canvasitem(canvasitem, 2000); And then later on to remove the item: spdesktop->remove_temporary_canvasitem(tempitem); It is perfectly safe to call this function even after the 2 seconds have elapsed, because it checks whether the object has already been deleted or not. In order to demonstrate and test the code, I have enabled the test LPEs, and added a Point parameter to lpe-Stacktest that is briefly flashed on-canvas when you press the edit oncanvas button. Draw a freehand path, apply lpe-'doEffect stack test', then press the edit oncanvas button next to the 'test' parameter; it should show a cross at the location of the parameter oncanvas. I have tested a bit, it *seems* bug-free... :) Special request to Diederik: Can you use the code from /live_effects/parameter/point.cpp, method param_editOncanvas, to flash the location of a snap ? This was my main motivation for writing all this! I hope people find other interesting things that can be briefly shown on canvas; like an arrow pointing to the parent object of a clone? :-) Cheers, Johan

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Fixed crash big in win32 native dialogs
by Joel Holdsworth 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hi All, I've located and fixed the crash bug in the win32 native dialogs. They seem to be working fine now, but let me know if there are still unresolved issues. Best Regards Joel

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recent 0.46 prelease for Mac OS X 10.4?
by J. Haas 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi, we were wondering, whether somebody could supply a recent pre release dmg package for Mac Os X 10.4? We are very happy about your achievements so far and found a few issues we would like to have a look at. issues we would like to check : 1. We found that in the 16573 release more than a few lines of text with or without sketches including transparency leads to a corrupted pdf file. 2. When changing the font to a font not supporting italics and then back again, the original formatting is lost. keep up the great work! Nicole, Juergen -- Juergen Haas, PhD Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Department Am Fassberg 11 D-37077 Goettingen Tel. +49-(0)-551-2012336 Germany

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Extensions on win32
by Ted Gould 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hey, So I think that this patch fixes a bunch of the extensions problems, many of them on win32. Can someone test it on Windows for me? Thanks, Ted

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Authors
by Gail Carmichael 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

I was wondering if we minded updating the authors file from "Gail Banaszkiewicz" to "Gail Carmichael" ? :) (Maybe I could do it myself, but I don't know where it is - Max just told me about it.)

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on refactoring
by Alexandre Prokoudine 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi, The word "refactoring" is floating in the air ever since 0.46 was branched. What I'm curious about is whether we have the exact plan of what we want to do. This is especially interesting in the context of other words like "animation". Is it still planned to split Inkscape into InkCore to make it possible building new applications? Do we want animation as part of Inkscape or as a co-project? Alexandre

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You are correct - Win32 printing really is broken!
by Joel Holdsworth 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Seeing as I am a win32 developer - albeit with not much time, I just hooked up my old printer to investigate the notorious win32 printing bug. I see the problem - wierd blackness in both bitmap and vector mode, and messed up polygons in vector mode. I guess I'm stating the obvious here. I'm not sure what to suggest - this seems like a renderer (cairo?) problem to me. If cairo is broken, then we must either push through fixes to cairo, or revert back to the old system. I imagine cairo fixes will be too slow, so I suggest we revert printing to the pre-November version for win32 only, until we can get a proper fix in time for 0.46.1. What do people think? +1 for releasing all platforms at the same time - we need to make as a big a media rumble as we can. Joel

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splitting PO files
by Alexandre Prokoudine 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi, Here is an question that is triggered by a recent request in inkscape-translator@...233... While doing refactoring in 0.47, should we probably try to split translatable messages into several ones? E.g.: po/ po-lpe/ po-extensions/ po-tools/ ? Inkscape has grown *a lot* over the 0.46: amount of translatable messages has jumped from 2480 in 0.45.1 to 3465 in 0.46. While supporting one large already existing PO file is probably OK for translators (not quite correct for the case I started this email with), creating a whole new translation will be psychologically difficult at the same time. I've seen this with Xara Xtreme for Linux which had ~5700 messages last time I checked - and the pace of translation work into various languages was dead slow. On the other hand, I sometimes find myself jumping between po/ru.po and po-libgimp/ru.po and suspect that this will apply to Inkscape to some extent in case we choose this path. Anyway, what do you think? Alexandre

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0.46/0.47 about pictures
by Alexandre Prokoudine 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi, I know, maybe it's too early to discuss that, but what happened to the chosen 0.46 and 0.47/SVN about pictures? :) Alexandre

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