On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Zhenfeng Zhao <zhenfeng.zhao.8@...400...> wrote:
Hello,
I am interested in working on the "transformation-anchors" project in GSOC this year. I am a graduate student in Computer Science in Canada.
Great, thanks! Please take into account my comment at the page of the spec:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SpecTransformAnchors
As far as I can see the interface mock-ups ignore this comment, so they need to be redone. The essence of it is that we must not introduce two different entities: center of rotation and anchor; we should have a single thing, the one now marked by the cross, and everything should move it and refer to it. This object already exists in the code, basically what you need is just add more UI facilities to move it. It is also (already) automatically saved into SVG per object, if moved. So we don't need that star button for separate "rotation center", but instead we need a way to set its coordinates numerically.
Please feel free to discuss or ask any questions you might have. The saving of the rotation center was coded by John Cliff, maybe he will agree to be your mentor for this?