On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:15:55 +1100, Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@...38...> wrote:
Currently the message box doesn't mention Esc to deselect
You mean statusbar - yes, I'll need update it.
(though it does mention `a' -- if your window is wide enough; I wonder whether we should allow the status bar to have more than one line).
If it's user-settable to any fixed number of lines (as opposed to auto-resizing to fit), then I agree.
I think what Kwixon is saying is that if one starts drawing anywhere other than at a path end then he'd prefer not to be in add mode. I think I agree.
I disagree because being unable to node-edit more than one path at a time is one of the important limitations of the node tool, and therefore automatically combining new paths as subpaths to the selected one when drawing eases this problem because subpaths can be edited all at once.
Conversely, I wonder if he's also saying that he'd like add points to be at the ends of all paths in the layer, not just the currently-selected one. I'm not sure whether he is requesting this, and I'm not sure whether it would be desirable: at least, it might be undirable in complex drawings with lots of paths.
Yes, and you will often run into other path's endnodes when drawing. So if you want to continue a particular path, just select it first.
Peter, do you have any comments on Scislac's message on freehand drawing? Are you planning to continue working on it?