-----Original Message----- From: bulia byak [mailto:buliabyak@...400...] Sent: woensdag 26 maart 2008 21:22
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
The ruler tool I really like and use a *lot* and start to
miss it in Inkscape...
I think you can 'copy' most of the code of the pentool,
and scratch all the code to make bezier things, because you only need straight lines!
So why a new tool? Can't you just add this functionality to Pen tool if you need it?
I think it is strange to add this to the pen tool where a user would not search it. Furthermore, the tool I propose does not draw ruler paths in SVG. Only an item on-canvas. They stay when switching to other tools, and are removed when pressing some special button/shortcut to remove them (all rulers at once). I meant more that it will not have to be implemented from scratch, as it seems the pen tool does some things that are necessary for the ruler tool (react on clicking on-canvas, drawing a line from clicked point to mouse pointer); I usually try to find functionality already coded in Inkscape, copy it and modify it.
I really find this a very useful tool for technical drawing. Checking dimensions, without counting grid squares, etc. Snapping to the ruler is also very nice, they sort of work like guidelines in that respect. Yes, that's it: see it as short guidelines that are temporary :-) (one shouldn't save them in the file for example)
-johan