Hello,
I just wanted to say that I have been very excited to read about the snapping toolbar which Diederik has implemented! I can't seem to find it on the windows precompiled devlopment binary I downloaded a couple of days ago so I will try the linux version at the weekend.
I wondered if it was still intended to use the shape of the 'snap indicator' (like corel) to show what modes of snapping are active with or without a tooltip to say it (endpoint, midpoint ...).
The same symbols could then be used on the snapping toolbar if desired, in the 'what to snap to' you were discussing.
I'm know you've tried corel now, and I think the shapes they use a more intuitive to a new user than those autocad uses:
http://www.corel.co.uk/uk/pdfs/cgs12/cdgs12_snapit.pdf
(page 3)
Best Wishes, Alex
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
Op Vr, 16 januari, 2009 01:39, schreef Rock Star:
The difference between creating and editing can be somehow seen from the video [1].
That video indeed explains everything! A few months ago I introduced a snapping delay, which makes snapping in Inkscape much more responsive in complex documents. That snapping delay is what you noticed when editing objects, but it apparently it doesn't work when creating objects. I will fix that. If however you prefer the old behavior without any delay, then just go the preferences -> snapping and set the delay to zero.
Now I see the problem with guides and grid and toggles. However, since I come more from a CAD world, I'm used of snapping to whatever is visible. Hence, if there are 2 grids turned on, I would expect to snap to both. This would than mean 2 more toggles. If you see grid/guides it snaps, otherwise not.
Maybe it isn't a problem after all to add an additional toggle in series. When creating a grid, the per-grid snapping is turned on by default. So if a user is not aware of this then he won't notice, and if he turns it off then... well, that's his/here responsibility ;-). So we would end up with these options in series:
- the global snapping toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS**
- the GLOBAL grid snapping toggle -> CLEARLY RECOGNIZABLE ON THE TOOLBAR
- the PER-GRID snapping toggle -> ON BY DEFAULT
- snap bounding box corners toggle or the snap nodes toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS TOO**
**) ... but only if they care about snapping obviously.
Anyway, thanks for the answer and additional explanation.
You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback!
Diederik