Hi Samuel, not at home to give exact code but color and label have a diferent namespace, you need xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" they are inkscape:color inkscape:label, similar to: {http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape%7Dcolor {http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape%7Dlabel Regards, Jabier.

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 12:59 +0100, Samuel Dellicour wrote:

I have build some extensions that generate guides (like guides in a grid with columns and gutters - available here: https://github.com/sambody/inkscape-guide-tools).

It works fine, but now that Inkscape 0.91 is out with the ability to change the color (and label) of an existing guide by hand, I had the following question: When I generate a guide in an extension, can I define the color (and label) of the guide when generating ? If yes, how?

I'm using a code like this : inkex.etree.SubElement(parent,'{ http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd%7Dguide ',{'position':position,'orientation':orientation})

I tried with just using 'color':'#ff0000ff' as extra parameter, but that didn't work.

If setting the color is possible, I could let the user choose a color for the generated guides, different from their default guide color.

Thanks.

Samuel

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On 2015-02-18 12:59 (+0100), Samuel Dellicour wrote:

I have build some extensions that generate guides (like guides in a grid with columns and gutters - available here: https://github.com/sambody/inkscape-guide-tools).

It works fine, but now that Inkscape 0.91 is out with the ability to change the color (and label) of an existing guide by hand, I had the following question: When I generate a guide in an extension, can I define the color (and label) of the guide when generating ? If yes, how?

Probably not, because Inkscape does not read the color for the guides from the SVG source yet (the new feature was only partially implemented):

- Bug #1374870 “Guide colour not rendered opening saved document” https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1374870

Regards, V

On 2015-02-18 15:03 (+0100), alvinpenner wrote:

if I manually edit the color of a guide using the gui, then I get something like below. You should be able to do the same by writing to 'inkscape:color'.

<sodipodi:guide
   position="100,548.57144"
   orientation="1,0"
   id="guide3336"
   inkscape:label=""
   inkscape:color="rgb(22,255,0)" />

AFAICT it won't help with current 0.91 even if the generated syntax is correct: Due to the partial implmentation Inkscape 0.91 and 0.91+devel will not render the guide with the color defined in the SVG source returned by the extension script.

Quick test: 1) open new doc 2) create a guide 3) assign a custom color to the guide 4) run any extension -> once the drawing content returned from the extension is reloaded in Inkscape's document window, the colored guide reverts to the original color.

Regards, V