2010/12/17 Jon Cruz <jon@...18...>:
Given that a different tool is currently showing both, it sounds reasonable to match that. But in the long term it is better to explicitly address the negatives of the approach instead of abandoning the whole approach.
In fact, I was thinking about modifying the selector to match the node tool.
Now that the negatives have been detailed, a few different solutions start to come to mind. I think one of the simplest is to add a little placement logic to the handles so that if too many handles are starting to show up we will invoke code to intelligently place them slightly farther away from the object center so as to allow them to function.
I like this better than simply copying the selector tool. The skew handles could be farther away from the bounding box than the rotation handles. I'll see whether this can be done
Regards, Krzysztof