Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:02:13AM -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
The connect the dots python extension uses M1,2L1,2 with round line caps to create a dot at (1,2).
Hmm, didn't think of that one. Nice idea.
I like this trick a little better. How do these (round caps, ellipse) scale at different scales? It isn't uncommon for me to be making drawings that are anywhere between 500um to several meters big
From a few minutes of playing around it seems that visually there is no difference between the two. What makes me tend to prefer ellipses, though, is that it's almost impossible to select such a dot by clicking on the canvas since you would have to hit the exact location of the single node (the same is true for moving a dot once it is selected). Try it in the attached file (there are two tiny dots roughly at position (100,750); you will have to zoom in quite a bit to see them). Moreover, accidentally changing the cap style will make it very hard to find the dot again. And finally, ellipses have the advantage that you can change fill and stroke style independently of each other in case you which to do so, whereas in the other case you are restricted to stroke style. Other opinions?
Max
