I've just downloaded and tried it and it works in this one. It's great to see such a useful feature to be developing at such a speed, thankyou!
If changing the shape of the snap indicator is a lot of effort in the long term, would it be possible to have a 'tooltip' pop up with it in the shorter term to say ("intersection") to indicate that the current X is the intersection of two objects. When things are close together it would help to see what exactly is snapping at that moment to ensure precision.
I think this may be what you were talking about earlier but in my tests if you draw a line, click elsewhere to deselect it, and then draw a new one with the start 'snapped' to the end of the exsting one the 'snap indicator' does not appear.
Similarly, if you want to pick a line up _from_ its center it does not appear when you hover close to the center of the line with the select tool. Once you are moving the line it does appear though when you get close to another object (say if you wanted to align two midpoints of lines to make an X shape from two seperate lines).
Re the icons, as someone from a more technical drawing background I have to admit that I do find the corel/autocad ones to be a little more intuitive personally. For example the second from the right, I would assume to mean 'snap to intersection' (i.e. between any two objects where the line/curve of a shape crosses any other line/curve on the same or a different object, whereas from the tooltip it seems to be "snap to the intersection of a grid with a guide".
Thanks again for all your work :-)
Alex
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
Hi Alex,
From: A.J. Carter [mailto:ajc200@...1930...] Sent: 2009 jan 16 12:13
it on the windows precompiled devlopment binary I downloaded a couple of days ago so I will try the linux version at the weekend.
It's in the windows nightly build that I've tested this morning. Don't know about previous builds.
I wondered if it was still intended to use the shape of the 'snap indicator' (like corel) to show what modes of snapping are active with or without a tooltip to say it (endpoint, midpoint ...).
Yes, someday we will have it like that. The snapping mechanism already has been prepared for this, it's only a matter of changing the shape of the indicator. I already had a look at this, but I'm not sure about the effort this would require though. Currently we're using a stock indicator, which should be replaced by a custom indicator.
Is there a RFE filed for this on Launchpad? I'm not sure, but this would we good to have.
I'm know you've tried corel now, and I think the shapes they use a more intuitive to a new user than those autocad uses:
The icons on our snapping toolbar are even more intuitive, well at least that's my (heavily prejudiced) opinion. We probably cannot use those though for the snap indicator because you might not recognize them when they're that small.
Diederik