On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, vellum wrote:
Hi Bryce,
In the new year when the dust has settled I would like to pursue patterns in Inkscape. I have been collecting and generating SVG code for several that I would like to see in the program and will post them. Also, what about generating specific patterns not present in the program? Would it be very difficult to implement this in Inkscape?
Vellum
What we need to do for not only this but also markers and gradients is to have a "palette manager" thingee that allows the user to edit these kind of <def> items.
There's three types of <def> items - "document level", "application level", and "external". Document level def's are stored in the document itself; currently this is the only type supported. Application level def's are defaults that will be provided by Inkscape itself; these are copied into the document if used, and removed if any all referring objects are deleted. External def's are specified with URI's and are not copied into the document at all, but instead looked up and loaded in memory at runtime; a command would be provided to the user to flatten external def's into document level def's.
Bryce