On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 07:33 -0300, Silveira Neto wrote:
I'd like to suggest a plugin for exporting Inkscape drawings to JavaFX, so developers could draw with Inkscape, export and program the logic with JavaFX. That extension just would have to export the drawing to a raw text .jfx file. The syntax is quite simple and I can help with it. I guess that Inkscape extensions are made in Python, right? I'd like to know where I can find more documentation about writing Inkscape extensions, I know a little bit of Python, I could try it.
I think that it would be an interesting extension. Inkscape extensions don't have to be in Python, infact they'll work with any language that supports STDIN and STDOUT (I think all of them). Chances are that you can create a wrapper script and an INX file for the translator that you linked to, and it'll just work.
As JavaFX and SVG graphical entities are similar (like shapes, paints, gradientes, paths, etc) you guys think that is possible to make such plugin for Inkscape? Someone would be interested in help me?
I would be happy to help with questions regarding the integration with Inkscape and the INX files. But, I'm not the only expert. Post your questions and progress on the mailing list and I think people would be interested. In general, in open source, people rarely respond to "do you want to help" and are more likely to send patches with little features as you show progress and have an exciting project.
Also, something you might think about writing is a JavaFX to SVG program. This would give people a more powerful tool for editing things that are already in JavaFX.
--Ted