On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Maximilian Albert <Anhalter42@...173...> wrote:
Have a look at latest SVN. It implements a dropdown menu in pencil/pen toolbar to select various shapes which are applied instantly after finishing a path. At present it has the options "None", "Clipboard", "Crescendo" and "Decrescendo".
Excellent! But can we make it a fully interactive widget, so it not only determines what to apply to a new path, but senses a change in selection and reflects and lets you change the profile of an existing path? It would then be millions of times more useful.
Also: right now it's impossible to use it with the spiro mode, i.e. it fails to add the pattern-on-path LPE on top of Spiro LPE. It must be smarter and be able to combine LPEs. It also must be smart enough to analyse an LPE stack and see if it contains a pattern-on-path and if the pattern path has one of the predefined IDs that it uses, and if so, show that profile selected in the list, and allow the user to change it even if it is in the middle of a stack. This is a similar problem to that of the Blur control - it also must be able to find the blur primitive in a filter stack and change it without disturbing the rest of effect primitives.
These verbal descriptions will disappear as soon as I've figured out how to add a images to the dropdown box like in the fill/stroke dialog.
I think you don't need to spend time on that now - text labels are good enough for the time being, so focus on the logic not on the visual niceness :)
Apart from adding images to the dropdown, shapes should be made loadable from an external files (similar to patterns) and more shapes should be added.
Absolutely.
Thanks for the great work!