I've been playing with SPOffset today -- great stuff! It has some awesome potential as an artistic tool.
That said, there are a few issues that bug me:
1. something's going a bit wonky with the associated NRArenaItem -- an assertion keeps triggering about the object's bounding box. Unfortunately, until I figure out what NRArenaItem::state actually means, I'm not sure of the best way to fix this.
2. I think perhaps Inset/Outset should modify the original path, rather than making a duplicate. Its behavior of duplicating the path and leaving them both selected surprised and frustrated me.
3. I'm not sure the use of xlink:href is really SVG-compliant in this case ... also, the behavior of following the original path was also a little surprising and frustrating, once I managed to get the original path selected without selecting the outset.
-mental
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:35, MenTaLguY wrote:
- I think perhaps Inset/Outset should modify the original path, rather
than making a duplicate. Its behavior of duplicating the path and leaving them both selected surprised and frustrated me.
- I'm not sure the use of xlink:href is really SVG-compliant in this
case ... also, the behavior of following the original path was also a little surprising and frustrating, once I managed to get the original path selected without selecting the outset.
How do the rest of you feel about these two? If nobody speaks up soon, I'm going to go ahead and change them...
-mental
Inset/Offset Path...
I think that we should offer a dialog with offset/inset where a positive value is offset and negative value is inset. Also, there are different types of corner offsets in the SVG spec: miter | round | bevel.
It would be good in this dialog if there was a checkbox to create a duplicate path that is offset. There should also be a checkbox to preview values entered for offset/inset.
I do like the quick feature of being able to do an offset/inset, but think a precise dialog with number entry should supplement our quick inset/offset.
Default use of the inset/offset makes more sense to NOT duplicate the shape.
If you all agree, I will add to RFE that new dialog, but am mainly writing to support position on already implemented inset/offset.
thx,
jon
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 15:27, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:35, MenTaLguY wrote:
- I think perhaps Inset/Outset should modify the original path, rather
than making a duplicate. Its behavior of duplicating the path and leaving them both selected surprised and frustrated me.
- I'm not sure the use of xlink:href is really SVG-compliant in this
case ... also, the behavior of following the original path was also a little surprising and frustrating, once I managed to get the original path selected without selecting the outset.
How do the rest of you feel about these two? If nobody speaks up soon, I'm going to go ahead and change them...
-mental
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, MenTaLguY wrote:
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:35, MenTaLguY wrote:
- I think perhaps Inset/Outset should modify the original path, rather
than making a duplicate. Its behavior of duplicating the path and leaving them both selected surprised and frustrated me.
It probably should modify the original path, as that would be consistent with how the rest of Inkscape's tools work.
- I'm not sure the use of xlink:href is really SVG-compliant in this
case ... also, the behavior of following the original path was also a little surprising and frustrating, once I managed to get the original path selected without selecting the outset.
Not sure I understand this one, but if the behavior is surprising and frustrating, maybe it ought to be changed.
How do the rest of you feel about these two? If nobody speaks up soon, I'm going to go ahead and change them...
Bryce
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