On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 06:44 -0500, aaron@...749... wrote:

Ted Gould wrote:

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On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 10:52 -0500, aaron@...749... wrote:

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Would multiline text input be useful for extensions? I can think of three specific uses at the moment:

But all of these could be solved in other ways: line delimiters and extension specific GUIs. Thoughts?

From the coding perspective, no problem. I'm just concerned that we're setting ourselves up for a failed user paradigm.

I can understand that. What are your thoughts on people writing extensions that pop up their own GUIs?

I have no problem with that, in general. But, the way that would be ideal for that is having the extension tie into the "preferences" stage of the extension's evaluation. We've discussed this before. The problem is how to get the parameters in and out of the Inkscape preferences file.

If you look on the menu, there is a way to call the last effect with the previous settings -- this is a very useful feature that I'd like to maintain. In order to do that, Inkscape needs to know the extension's preferences.

I'm not sure of the best way to get this done. The only way that I can think of is to have the script return the preference values to STDOUT, but that doesn't feel like a good solution. Ideas are welcome.

--Ted