On 14/1/10 19:40, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
The new node tool is now in the trunk - please test and report any bugs. I made a few last minute improvements inspired by the discussion.
New features are listed in the release notes: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.48#Node_Tool
moving back to a more appropriate thread about the new node tool...
On 16/1/10 12:07, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
W dniu 16 stycznia 2010 11:18 użytkownik ~suv <suv-sf@...58...> napisał:
I'm not sure if all is good...
I updated to revision 8988. Building went without any new errors besides the known warnings.
The new node tool is very unstable and unpredictable for me, and barely usable in LPE effects to adjust effect parameters on-canvas precisely [1] and when snapping is active (doesn't make a difference if snap delay is default or reduced to 0ms). Since I haven't heard about this from others - here, on the bug tracker or in #inkscape - I'm not sure if this due to using gcc-4.0 to build Inkscape.
Try revision 8989, there was a very stupid bug in CurveDragPoint (it could try to construct a Glib::ustring from NULL under certain circumstances). It is not related to using __gnu_cxx or unordered_set.
So far I could not reproduce the crash with revision 8989 - I'll keep trying ;) Meanwhile ...
... some other questions about the new node tool:
1) removing several cusp nodes e.g. of a default star converted to path:
With Inkscape 0.47 r22853 the nodes at the ends of the new (shortened) straight segment are still cusp without any (new) handles.
With the new node tool the resulting new segment is curved i.e. it has handles on both side with seemingly random angles and lengths. To me this is an unexpected change of the path-segment.
2) tabbing through nodes, finding first/last node
In Inkscape 0.47 r22583 I could conveniently find the first node of a path by selecting the path with the select tool, switch to the node tool and <TAB> once for the first node (or Shift+<TAB> for the last) and continue through all nodes with <TAB>.
With the new node tool this no longer works: now I have to select at least one node of a sub-path and <TAB> goes from there. If by chance I picked the last node I'm out of luck: the first <TAB> deselects all nodes and neither a second <TAB> nor a Shift+<TAB> does allow me to further select adjacent nodes of the sub-path.
3) editing LPEs with multiple path effect parameters on canvas e.g. VonKoch has a reference segment and a generating path
In Inkscape 0.47 it was possible to edit both paths alternately with the node tool by either using the button on the node tool controls bar to cycle through all available path effect parameters or by clicking on the node-edit tool in the path effect editor for each parameter.
Both methods fail with the new node tool: I can edit one parameter by clicking the node-edit icon in the path effect editor, to edit the second one I first have to change back to the select tool, then click on the node-edit icon for the other parameter in the path effect editor. The button on the node edit controls bar fails to switch parameters while the node tool is active.
4) node transformation - snapping a selection of nodes
Snapping works for me only works when snapping individual nodes, but fails with a selection of several nodes (doesn't matter if they are part of the same sub-path, part of several sub-paths or part of different paths). Whenever snapping occurs while dragging or when releasing the mouse only the selected node used for dragging snaps and changes its position in relation to the other nodes i.e. the geometry of the selected portion of the paths changes while dragging with snapping enabled. Changing snap delay to 0ms doesn't improve or change this.
Please tell me if you'd prefer bug reports for any of above listed issues instead of adding them to this thread.
~suv