On 28/6/09 18:28, JiHO wrote:
I have had similar problems for a while with all tools actually, where the style would revert to Unset for fill and stroke (unset fill appears transparent, unset stroke appears black so I guess this is what you are seeing). This seemed to have improved in recent builds but indeed there are still some issues.
My issue started with the last dev build (r21674): over and over I had to change the text style from Fill: None, Stroke: black (shown in the status bar style indicator) when creating new text objects (I worked on test cases for bug #388257 while updating from r21615 to r21674). The text style behavior in my perception definitely changed between these two revisions.
Resetting preferences.xml several times, with both version, I still can't pin down what exactly changed or fails, except that with r21615 I didn't have repeatedly black outlined text as default.
The 'Tool's own style' preference settings revert back to 'Fill: Unset, Stroke: Unset' in both versions, but on canvas different settings are applied to new text objects.
So it seems the pb is mainly with the font toolbar. The font dialog works perfectly. I must say that I have relied on the dialog for a while because the toolbar has never beer very reliable/fast enough for me. The only thing that used to kind of work were the bold/italic buttons but they don't work anymore.
Yes, I mainly used the text tool controls bar because I needed repeatedly only basic text attributes (name, size, color). The 'bold' button works for me but not with all fonts, 'italic' works only to toggle it off after applying an italic/oblique style in the font dialog.
~suv
btw - the build date of the dev builds (osx, modevia) in the about screen didn't update (last three builds all show 'built Jun 10 2009' on my system)