G33K wrote:
I'd like to use the calligraphy tool to draw outlines for a shape, and want to fill the initially transparent interior of that outline with a different color. The only solution I've found so far is to apply the "break apart" command, then select the inner shape and change its color manually. That's a lot of steps, which stops the flow of drawing.
You are reiterating a reasonably common request. I don't know that an extension is the best way to do this. John Bintz implemented the bucket fill tool to solve this problem for his particular usecase, but that involved filling spaces between more than one stroke. At about the same time (I think it was) John Cliff, aka simarilius implemented a patch for the caligraphy tool that created a dummy fill shape for each stroke. I don't believe this patch was ever accepted but you can probably find information about it from the patch tracker or in the list archives. I would like to see the calligraphy tool reframed in terms of the live path effects architecture. This could potentially allow for repositioning calligraphic strokes after the fact and dynamically creating a fill path. I don't have a solution for you, but hopefully this gives you more background and gets the conversation going.
(I posted this to the user list when I realized that it is probably more of a development question. Sorry for the double post.)
No problem!
Aaron Spike