bulia byak wrote:
Krzysztof is working on Node tool as his GSoC task, and as part of the refactoring we may be able to add support for editing quadratic and elliptic segments in paths. Is anyone aware of how other software supports these beasts from UI viewpoint - what handles are used and how? Any pointers will be appreciated.
I used some software once that had these, though I can't remember the name of it. SomethingDraw I think. In that your paths were either/or - you would use either a bezier tool, or a quadratic tool, or an elliptical segment tool.
A dedicated elliptical path drawing tool would be fairly useful imho. You could draw shapes with one tool or another and combine them with boolean operations.
One use case that would come in handy would be if you could convert a rounded rectangle to a path with elliptic segments for corners so that you could scale each corner individually without distorting the rectangle's sides.
Dan