RE: [Inkscape-devel] some questions/suggestions
Another approach that might be useful would be a "cookie cutter" mode, where each mouseclick pastes a copy of the object to the click location. This could be useful for maps and diagrams, where you will be using a lot of symbols or repeated shapes.
Indeed - but not by clicks and not in a separate mode, simply that ctrl-v must paste into the location of the cursor. So you just move your mouse with one hand and keep pressing ctrl-v with the other, lots of fun :)
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On Dec 15, 2003, at 1:37 PM, bulia byak wrote:
Indeed - but not by clicks and not in a separate mode, simply that ctrl-v must paste into the location of the cursor. So you just move your mouse with one hand and keep pressing ctrl-v with the other, lots of fun :)
Aha! A 'paint' or 'spraygun' mode.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
ctrl-v must paste into the location of the cursor. So you just move your mouse with one hand and keep pressing ctrl-v with the other, lots of fun :)
Aha! A 'paint' or 'spraygun' mode.
My recollection is fuzzy (and I know I should check this but) in some programs either Duplicate or Paste (repeatedly) would place the new object sligthly diagonally offset from the original object.
A seperate SprayPaint tools sounds like fun, I recall toying with it Adobe Ill so it might be something people find genuinely useful too (from a quick random bit of browsing the spray can seems to be particularly useful for things like leaves or drops that you would want to add many times all over a drawing). generic reuse of shapes/symbols is really useful as for the svg <use> tag I'll definately have to take a closer look at the SVG that Dia exports and see if it can be made much more efficient by a few well placed <use> tags.
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Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
duplicate should keep the copy in the same location, and paste should follow the mouse, but possibly should be in the same place if the mouse hasn't moved yet...
It would be nice to get a visual identification on the cloning of an object though, with the mouse pointer changing and/or the statusbar changing when a hotkey is depressed to do cookiecutter duplication of an object. I know there is the weird spacebar super-clone that is somewhat similar. That is already implemented, but not in documentation very prominently.
A couple of other things: It would be good to fix the menu item "Stoke to Path" to say "Stroke to Path" (TYPO). I think a good feature would be to add more hotkeys while editing and dragging objects. A good feature of illustration programs is to hold the alt key and get to drag a new copy and leave the old one behind. And better still, is if you hold the shift key down and you can constrain the new copy to 90 deg. angles (or whatever is the pref). You also get a nice mouse indicator, that looks like a double mouse. Maybe it would be good to match the alt key to this operation with objects...and keeping the spacebar for the super clone tool.
I will put into the RFE later...
fyi jon
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 13:37, bulia byak wrote:
Another approach that might be useful would be a "cookie cutter" mode, where each mouseclick pastes a copy of the object to the click location. This could be useful for maps and diagrams, where you will be using a lot of symbols or repeated shapes.
Indeed - but not by clicks and not in a separate mode, simply that ctrl-v must paste into the location of the cursor. So you just move your mouse with one hand and keep pressing ctrl-v with the other, lots of fun :)
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