Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> writes:
Something that's been missing for a while is the ability to set arbitrary connection points on objects so we can use visio style workflows with connectors doing more work for us.
May I draw you collective attention to this demonstration video:
http://divajutta.com/doctormo/inkscape-as-visio.ogv
Here I show off a workflow hack (using nautilus as a stencil) and an genuine edmun scream style code hack to 0.48x branch mod'ing the connector-context code which you can find here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~doctormo/inkscape/knot-visio
It works by enabling rectangles inside groups to act as child center points. Each of the items you see me drag in the video is a group and each connector is a very tiny rectangle. I hacked it like this because now transforms also transform the new connector points and the amount of code I had to modify is quite small.
It also fixes a bug with connectors where connected elements when grouped would not be able to be updated. I added a parent group transform signal catch for 1 level deep which should help with that.
Very interesting! I've also tried to improve the existing connector code but your approach seems much farther along. Would any of this hit trunk soon?
Anyway, as a proof of concept I humbly submit this idea to the rest of the developers here for review.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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