On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Robin KAY wrote:
I have made a giant patch against inkscape 0.38.1 which allows it compile under Solaris and with the SunPro compiler. No doubt it won't apply cleanly against the CVS head but I'll look in to that in a few days.
Thanks, sounds like some very valuable code cleanup items.
BTW, on an unrelated note, are there any plans for animation support?
Animation is on the roadmap, yes, although it's a considerable ways off. Of course, if someone were to take an interest in working on it, we'd certainly have no problem accepting a patch early. ;-)
But there has been some good bits of news on these fronts:
* Ishmal has added ECMA code to the codebase and hooked in compile support, which gets us onto the path of having Javascript in the SVG; this can be used for animation, and is the reason for adding it.
Those interested in helping work on this aspect of animation could probably find some nice bite-sized bits to implement to help Ishmal. For example, he currently needs a "Run Button" added to the UI, that will invoke the embedded Javascript in a file.
* We've heard reports of a program called LIVES (see the Tools page on the website), which is a video editing system. You can create movies with Inkscape by twiddling your drawing and exporting as numbered PNG files, then use LIVES to hook them all into a movie.
* There is another program that uses the Sodipodi codebase, and that specializes in animation, but I don't recall the name offhand and couldn't find it with a quick googling.
* In addition to ECMA, SMIL is the other way to do animation in SVG. I don't know much more than that, nor know of any work along those lines that anyone's doing.
Bryce