The Spray Tool is fantastic imho. The additional dialog with more options is the least appealing aspect of it, imho. Otherwise it's a GREAT addition. The reason it won't make it into 0.47 is because it was finished so late in this dev cycle. It will be great to have it go in right after trunk is reopened for all development though. :) Do you or any of the other students have commit access to the main repo? If not, best practice would be to submit it as a patch, to follow our established protocol. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers, Josh On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 19:14 +0200, Pierre-Antoine MARC wrote:

I already pointed it out to the students, I'm glad the project went well. Only open-source can offer the opportunity to work on a large scale software with educational purposes in mind. I hope their work will be welcomed into trunk after the 0.47 release. Here are some comments on the tool as it is today : - Inkscape stores the current tool parameter values, unfortunately the sidebar fields values are back to the default ones each time Inkscape launch, thus they don't display the good information. -"Rotation" default values should be 0.0 and 0.0 - the "Width" slider on the toolbar isn't synchronized with the "Width" parameter of the side pannel. - "angle"and "rotation" parameters should be in degres instead of radians. - the "ratio" parameter of the brush shape is ambiguous. I would expect a circle for a ratio of 1. It needs to be defined precisely and understood well by the user. Steren 2009/5/21 Jarosław Foksa <jfoksa@...400...>

Pajarico wrote: latest version is at http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/ you may need to install 7-zip in order to unzip the file -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-about-the-spray--tp23657286p23931366.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

sorry, I don't know about the spray tool, I just know where the latest version is, hope I didn't mislead anyone ... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-about-the-spray--tp23657286p23931615.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi, On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Pajarico <pajarico@...400...> wrote: They worked on their own branch. And they added a new "Spray" tool in the ToolBar. It was decided that their work would not be merged before the 0.47 release. I tried it and in fact their spray tool is really designed to spray objects (the same you would paint with a spray). The tweak tool is still here to tweak their repartition. The workflow is much more intuitive than with the current "duplicate" mode of the tweak tool. When their work is integrated, we may have to discuss to move some functionalities from one tool to an other. (I personally think it's working well as it was built) Indeed your blueprint ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SpecSprayTool ) was the base of their work. Basically, they decided to simplify to be able to make it on time. - You have the choice to spray with "copies", "clones" and "into a single path". - It handles any object (shape, group, text...). - You can set rotation and scale variations. - The repartition they implemented is a Gaussian one, you can change its parameters. - You can open a side panel for more parameters. Only the sources are available [1]. The students wrote a report, it is in French but has many illustrations [2]. I would suggest you to check it. Last time I heard of them, they intended to write an English translation of it. Steren [1] SVN repository : http://svn.eclair.ec-lyon.fr/svn/pi2010_inkscape [2] http://svn.eclair.ec-lyon.fr/filedetails.php?repname=Projets.PI+2010+Inks...