What is the difference between 'Snap to Grid' and 'Snap Points to Grid'?
Bryce
I haven't tested this on latest CVS, but could you doublecheck that the '#' keyboard shortcut turns both options on? (It isn't in my copy here at work, but it's a couple week's old).
Bryce
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, bulia byak wrote:
What is the difference between 'Snap to Grid' and 'Snap Points to Grid'?
The former is removed now, it's obsolete. (If you still see it somewhere, let Carl know so he can clean up.) Now snapping is controlled by 2 options, one for bboxes and the other for nodes.
I haven't tested this on latest CVS, but could you doublecheck that the '#' keyboard shortcut turns both options on? (It isn't in my copy here at work, but it's a couple week's old).
It's not supposed to. Carl made it switch on bbox snapping only, not node snapping. I think enabling both types of snapping may indeed be confusing and difficult for novices - "too much snapping" in selector feels a bit weird. Those who need node snapping can enable it via the document preferences.
On the other hand, now that I think of it, it would be logical to enable node snapping when in node edit tool, and not enable it otherwise (by default, can be overridden by the user). What do you think?
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, bulia byak wrote:
I haven't tested this on latest CVS, but could you doublecheck that the '#' keyboard shortcut turns both options on? (It isn't in my copy here at work, but it's a couple week's old).
It's not supposed to. Carl made it switch on bbox snapping only, not node snapping. I think enabling both types of snapping may indeed be confusing and difficult for novices - "too much snapping" in selector feels a bit weird. Those who need node snapping can enable it via the document preferences.
On the other hand, now that I think of it, it would be logical to enable node snapping when in node edit tool, and not enable it otherwise (by default, can be overridden by the user). What do you think?
That would be a good idea. Basically, unless it turns node snapping on, '#' becomes rather useless for my purposes. I like thinking of it as a 'Snap On!' / 'Snap Off!' toggle, so there really isn't such a thing as too much snapping. :-)
Fwiw, even with the node snapping checked, I'm still noticing some stuff doesn't snap as it used to. I'll report more once I'm up to a more current copy.
[ Background: I'm creating a presentation for the Ottowa Linux Symposium and am going to be using Inkview for it. Good PR opportunity. :-) ]
Bryce
That would be a good idea. Basically, unless it turns node snapping on, '#' becomes rather useless for my purposes. I like thinking of it as a 'Snap On!' / 'Snap Off!' toggle, so there really isn't such a thing as too much snapping. :-)
I don't use snapping much, so it's hard for me to comment, but I found the small discrepancy (half the stroke width) between the bbox and the node of a rect, when both snap, rather annoying.
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