On 03/21/2009 06:16 PM, A.J. Carter wrote:
In both cases I'm drawing two rectangles (snapped to grid) then translating one so it exactly touches the corner of the other.
When I was saying pick up the box _from_ it's corner in corel the 'node' tooltip pops up before I click to select the object, while in inkscape it's not clear that I'm holding the corner as I translate the object (although as you correctly say indeed it is)
In Inkscape you don't grab a rectangle by its corner, but instead you grab the full rectangle including all of its four corners. Any corner might snap, not just the one you tried to grab. So you don't really hold the corner as in CorelDraw. This difference is quite subtle. In the nightly builds however there is this option to snap only the node (of the item that's being dragged) closest to the mouse pointer, or if you think you'd like something in between then there's the slider to set a weight factor, buy you probably already knew that.
, and only appears as I finally position it.
Correct, Inkscape only has a POST-snap indicator. A PRE-snap indicator is still on my to-do list :-). The pre-snap indicator is especially needed in cases where there's nothing there yet, for example when creating new shapes.
I think it would be clearer if the tooltip popped up to show which part of the object is _about_ to be selected ala corel.
That could be useful indeed!
Also if only 'snap to nearest' is selected the tooltip only needs to display on screen what is being snapped _to_ since in the corel approach what is being snapped _from_ is displayed at the time of selection. (As opposed to inkscape's which says both in the tip)
But it doesn't hurt to display both in the tooltip, does it? The text is a bit long in some cases, but that's all. It might be hard to discern whether it's the node or the boundingbox that is snapping when only a marker is shown. Now it's made explicit in the tooltip's text.
Thanks for the videos and for your feedback, it really is much appreciated!
Regards,
Diederik