so it is a legitimate feature! we should work on this right away! it shouldn't be too hard if the base has been written right and the ability to add scripting would be a plus for sure.
Where do i sign up to help?
Perl, 92% VB, 67% C, 12%
Oh and no C++ experience. am I useless on the programming side?
On 18 Apr 2006, at 21:42, Jose Hevia wrote:
2006/4/18, Martin Owens <doctormo@...1114...>:
would it not make sense if animation was to ever be attempted that inkscape be used as a base and animation features be placed on top? using each key frame as a layer and storing only the changes between each layer should be easy anough to have as an add on.
It would be very nice to have within inkscape but I think the projects main aims of being SVG compient come first.
I think is very important for Inkscape (and the world) to have svg animation support. If someone asked me what do I want for Inkscape, I would say:
-3D/2D support. This is a huge task, maybe needs Inkscape low level refactoring, because it can't handle lots of data.
-Animation. The web needs practical svg animation, and it doesn't exist yet. Flash is an impressive technology and open source needs to try to catch them.This is a huge task too but we are not alone here, there is a lot of people that 'd want to draw dynamic graphics but they don't know about it yet.
Flash is not open/readable, so you can't manipulate what you receive. This makes web content TVish instead of interactive. Google can't see from a flash file, but it can thought svg.
As an example, Inkscape can now fill 99% of my static drawing needs and I use it a lot more than "normal" users, if I want something complex (filling a path with lines") I could do it with some extra effort, but I cant use it for 0.00% of my moving drawings needs. If someone starts this task, someone will continue his work. One developer unit time is going to be better spend filling a 100% need than a 1% one.
-Sound integration, make it easy to connect drawing events to sounds in a standard svg way.(scripting)
Cheers Jose Hevia
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