Strange, I seem to be having rendering problems now. See first attached file: sometimes (once every few renders) the render doesn't update after moving nodes or the width control. It takes moving things around a bit more before it renders again.
I'm not sure if it's a Powerstroke problem or some other render problem, though I don't seem to have the same issue with normal paths or Pattern along Paths.
The inside of strokes looks great for the most part now! It still renders "inside" for sharp angles.
Also, it seems hard to make very sharp Extrapolated edges again. See second attachment. I've increased the miter limit to 400, and the edge does render under Miter mode, but not under Extrapolated mode.
You're right about the UI, some discussion is needed. And then it needs to be coded (I can't code, unfortunately). It's a pity, because this is a feature that's bound to be very popular, and UI issues would slow down the workflow.
Message: 6 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:41:17 +0200 From: Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Powerstroke: adding/deleting width nodes To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4F91BBDD.4080701@...2592...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
On 16-4-2012 4:03, Valerie wrote:
The inside of joins should look better now.
Thanks! And actually, I think I found the reason for my "hard to make points appear" issue. And I think it might have been resolved since. See the attachment.
I made that example in a version of Inkscape on Windows. As you can see, if the control point was on one side, the pointy edges would not appear. But moving them to the other side somehow fixed the problem. So it had nothing to do with miter limit!
Yep you found the reason, and yep I had it already fixed :)
Apart from that there's some rendering issues for large lines, but those are extreme cases. It's definitely quite nice to use now!
Struggling with thick lines too... but I think it will be hard to fix as I think the 'bug' is actually 'correct' mathematical behavior.
Now my main wish-item involves quickly accessing settings. The most accessible way may be to have a drop-down option for "Last powerstroke settings" (shorter name needed...) Being able to save each settings and access them from the toolbar drop-downs would be even better, but that doesn't seem to be trivial to do right now.
All ideas are welcome. Help would be nice: UI stuff is generally not particularly difficult to code, but time consuming (and of course you need to decide what you want).
I recently did quite a big "mathematical" change, so perhaps new bugs popped up... but it was supposed to fix the "instable" rendering stuff (where you see flickering joins for example).
Cheers, Johan
