Mathieu Dimanche wrote:
Hi everyone
Hi and welcome aboard!
Since it's my first attempt at trying to make things improve in a software, using cvs, and trying to understand a whole project (and written in c++... sometimes), please don't be too harsh on me and on my english level, I'm just a little frenchy :)
Don't worry, we have many contributors that have a native language other than English. We've seen it all by now. ;)
Next things I could look at could be :
- Snapping modes (enable/disable) Bounding box and dots snapping. I
thik it could be great too temporarily disable bounding box snapping, just to make sure only dots do it.
Yes, bounding box and node (dots) snapping would be handy... I'd recommend also checking into snapping anywhere along a path as well.
- Providing visual feedback of which of these is used now (you grab
a rectangle, its bounding box snaps a guide, the guide turns red (default highlight color), and a little text appears along the guide saying (snapping to boungbox). If you drag farther, the boundingbox will stop snapping and it's the corner dot that will do, so the text'll be "dot snapping" or something like this... maybe snapped dots could be highlited too
I do have to say that is one thing that I really like about Illustrator... the visual feedback. I think it really is an excellent place to follow the example from in this case. We may want to look into having color coded highlighting based on which layer an object belongs to (ala Illustrator). But the text feedback would be excellent in my book.
What do people think ? What feature would you like most ?
Glad to see you working on this! As I mentioned above, welcome aboard! Now to go apply that patch to check it out...
-Josh