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Loading User Preferences?
by Ben Fowler 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

On 10/11/05, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > On 10/11/05, Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote: > > > Are you sure that the console application should load user > > preferences? > > You may be right, but I'm not prepared to guarantee that the console > code never ever uses the prefs. It may still rely on something in some > cases. This needs investigating. But in general I agree that it is > annoying when a console app has something else that may affect its > behavior, apart from the command line params that I give it. That is very much my point. When using command line tool, I would expect it to take account of only what is on the command line or in referenced files. I think that bash and vim work like this, though they have non-trivial systems for setting user preferences and initial settings when used interactively. I might even go so far as to make a policy specifically to eliminate use of the prefs., and to document this as being so. Ben

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mingw up
by Jon A. Cruz 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Well... I've finally got fink to install mingw-gcc on my Mac. Next I have to get to actually setup and build the Win32 version, then I can help test. Just wondering if anyone else has done this before, or if anyone else is interested in it?

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Crazy Xara Idea
by Ted Gould 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Let's make two assumptions: 1) I have a Xara binary with built in Pantone support 2) That binary is not stripped. If I have the source code I should be able to figure out which function calls deal with that library, and I should be able to dynamically load the Xara binary and call those functions since I know the prototypes from the source code, and if I used the same tool chain. Could we get Pantone support? Users would have to buy the full version of Xara to get it, but for most people who need Pantone, that wouldn't be a big deal. Probably a better solution is to convince Xara to break their color management out into a GPL'd library. Then they could sell a proprietary version of that included Pantone support. Then we could link to that library. If it was generic enough, Scribus and GIMP might be interested also. Anyway, I've never thought about dynamically loading an application before. Crazy. --Ted

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Win32 build trouble
by William Swanson 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Hello again, The build notes for Win32 (http://inkscape.org/win32/win32buildnotes.html) include the following step: * Get the latest Mingw distribution, here [http://www.mingw.org/]. It will be called something like mingw-x.x.x.exe. I could not find any such thing at the mingw.org site. They've broken their distribution down into dozens of little pieces, and I have no idea which I need. As an alternative, I decided to try using my existing cygwin installation. Unfortunately, cygwin seems to have a newer compiler with several subtle incompatibilities. After a few hours tracking down build problems, I give up. Does anyone have a working "mingw installation" they can zip up and send me? Or, at least some information on what it takes to get such a thing? I would really appreciate it. -s_tec __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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corrupted inkscape 0.43 about.svg
by Peter Moulder 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

share/screens/about.svg in CVS is corrupt: line 256 has `xml:space="preser,20.857566 -2664.3438,22.031250 C ' (and so on, evidently from a path's d attribute): see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1310742&group_id=9… (True both of the initial upload (v1.20) and HEAD (v1.21).) Can everyone who's had something to do with this about screen search your hard drive and see if you have any copies that don't have the same corruption? Otherwise, where did we get this SVG file from? pjrm.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Win32 build trouble
by William Swanson 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

--- spike@...749... wrote: > Wow, it disappeared. I'm on vacation now so I don't have the access > necessary to send you any large ZIPs. I think I would try MinGW-4.1.0.exe > and mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.exe. > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.exe?download > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-4.1.0.exe?download > > See if that works. It compiles! I had some trouble with unknown symbols, so I added a few hacks to placate the linker. In desktop-affine.cpp: #include <assert.h> In dir-util.cpp: int errno; In unclump.o: unsigned long infinity_hack = 0x7F800000; //32-bit IEEE infinity float _imp____infinity = *reinterpret_cast<float*>(&infinity_hack); The first is arguably a legitimate fix, but the other two horrible hacks for problems I do not fully understand. I will probably start work on the dialog box issues this afternoon. In particular, the biggest problem is bug [1318726], which I just submitted. (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1318726&group_id=9…) For some reason, the "Save As" dialog box is an insane size, making it completely unusable. The non-native dialogs are a nusiance in the first place; it would be much better to replace them with the standard dialogs in comctl32.dll anyhow, as per bug [1118565]. (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306&func=detail&aid=…) Does anyhone object to making the switch? -s_tec __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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Compilation fails due to markup error
by Lucas Vieites 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hi, I'm trying to compile from cvs and I get the following error during "make": -------------------------------------------- es.po: parsing error for `>\n\n <submenu name=\"_File\">\n <submenu name=\"_New\">\n <verb verb-id=\"FileNew\" />\n <template-list/>\n </submenu>\n [snip] the entire xml from /src/menus-skeleton.h:7 [/snip] -------------------------------------------- and this at the end: WARNING: Bad markup found in translations. Please consider fixing the above problems. I think the problem is in /src/menus-skeleton.h lines 6 and 7 right here: -------------------------------------------- static char const menus_skeleton[] = N_("<inkscape version=\"" INKSCAPE_VERSION "\"\n" -------------------------------------------- Which causes the po file to look like this: -------------------------------------------- #: ../src/menus-skeleton.h:7 msgid "<inkscape version=\"" msgstr "<inkscape version=\"" #: ../src/menus-skeleton.h:7 msgid "" "\"\n" " xmlns:sodipodi=\"http://inkscape.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd \"\n" " xmlns:inkscape=\"http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape\">\n" "\n" -------------------------------------------- breaking the xml. Couldn't "INKSCAPE_VERSION" be a "%s" in order not to break the xml syntax? Sorry if I'm completely off the right track, I'm just trying to figure things out. Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Makefile:409: *** target pattern contains no `%'
by Ralf Stephan 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

jflemaire: > I tried, with version 1.8.5, and it's much worse. It refuses to process > with a bunch of "AM_PROG_LIBTOOL" and such related errors. That's why I you didn't give the exact version of the automake-1.8.5 rpm I have no problems doing autogen.sh with cvs on SuSE10rc1 here, but my automake is automake-1.8.5-3tr.i586.rpm from rpmfind.net also, compiling/running is fine. hth, ralf

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win98 to be dropped?
by bulia byak 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Looks like the win98 crash will not be fixed. I even submitted a bug to Gnome but it got no response so far: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316878 Since no one agreed to roll back windows libs to the previous working version, we have to officially drop support for this platform. This saddens me immensely, it's a defeat which will likely affect my feelings towards the project. I have win98 on an older box that my wife and kids use, and now suddenly it has no latest Inkscape anymore. (Not that it worked there perfectly before, but at least it worked and was used quite often.) Here's my proposed addition to the Known Issues in the release notes - Peter and/or Jon, please review and commit (unless you have any other ideas, of course): Due to a bug in GTK 2.8, this version of Inkscape will not work on Windows 95/98/ME. Please don't send us crash reports from those platforms. We hope to be able to resume support for these platforms in the future, but no specific committments can be made at this point. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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dingy snowcaps
by unknown＠example.com 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

I've noticed that the snowcap on the Inkscape Windows icon for 0.42.x is a dingy grey instead of white. Why is this, is it still the case in CVS, and if so can someone please fix it? -mental

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