On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 09:40 +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Doug Schepers has been actively working on an SVG connectors specification. He hasn't released a draft yet but maybe we can persuade him to. It would be good if you can look at it and comment on it.
Yes, do you have a link for this work?
Our implementation of connectors should be as compatible aspossible with the draft (but in the Inkscape namespace to avoid a repeat of the flowed text debacle). As I understand it, the specification will include "anchor" points on objects to define where connectors attach.
That thinking doesn't exist in the branch any more. The idea of specifying in particular custom points on objects as attributes is clumsy and will require vast amounts of code to make it work like we want. But I haven't seen the svg draft specification.
As I've commented before, symbols and connectors are naturalto use together. The new Symbols Dialog would be more useful if symbols included connector anchor points.
There would be no connector anchor point, there would only be anchor points which could be optionally used with the connector tool.
Martin,