How is progress going on the Connector tool?
How difficult would it be to hack moving the connector endpoints onto the stroke of an arbitrary end path? I think most of the necessary calculations already exist in the code: http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/nodepath_8cpp.php#8395e2b195614934a... http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/bezier-utils_8cpp.php#114a9074e2c76... http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/classInkscape_1_1ObjectSnapper.php#...
Likewise I wonder what it would take to adjust connector placement given the end marker paths?
Aaron Spike
On 4/20/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote:
How is progress going on the Connector tool?
How difficult would it be to hack moving the connector endpoints onto the stroke of an arbitrary end path?
In my opinion, it is much more important to allow the endpoints to be freely draggable by the user, so that they remember their position relative to the center of the target object, and preserve this position when the target object is transformed (similar to the way rotation centers are now preserved). This will give the user much more freedom. Running the connectors to the stroke is a nice convenience, but with our markers' tips not coinciding witth the end node, it would still look half-broken most of the time.
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:26:12AM -0500, Aaron Spike wrote:
How is progress going on the Connector tool?
How difficult would it be to hack moving the connector endpoints onto the stroke of an arbitrary end path? I think most of the necessary calculations already exist in the code: http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/nodepath_8cpp.php#8395e2b195614934a... http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/bezier-utils_8cpp.php#114a9074e2c76... http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/classInkscape_1_1ObjectSnapper.php#...
Likewise I wonder what it would take to adjust connector placement given the end marker paths?
Well, technically it's *easy* to adjust connector placement to the end of the path. The problem is that it looks like crap because the end cap of the line shows through. The ideal solution would be to have some mechanism to either allow forshortening the line segment or to have some way to mask the line segment. But I have no idea how to do either of those things... If anyone can implement a feature like that, I can fix up the markers to use it pretty quickly.
Bryce
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Aaron Spike wrote:
How is progress going on the Connector tool?
Not bad. I have code in Dunnart (my prototype editor) that automatically rounds the line segments for connectors, which is something that has been requested by a few people and that I know people were doing manually as a postprocessing step. I'll shift this into libavoid and Inkscape will be able to have it shortly. I've also done some work towards generating orthognal connectors (those that run only horizontally and vertically) though am not quite there yet.
I'm a bit busy with usability experiments right now, so haven't done much more.
How difficult would it be to hack moving the connector endpoints onto the stroke of an arbitrary end path? I think most of the necessary calculations already exist in the code: http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/nodepath_8cpp.php#8395e2b195614934a... http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/bezier-utils_8cpp.php#114a9074e2c76... http://inkscape.modevia.com/doxygen/html/classInkscape_1_1ObjectSnapper.php#...
You mean that if a connector is attached to a circle the connector is drawn to the edge, rather than the bounding box, right? This one is high on my todo list. You're right, it's not too much work and most of the necessary code is there. Just a matter of finding time to work on it right now.
Cheers, Michael
Michael Wybrow wrote:
Not bad. I have code in Dunnart (my prototype editor) that automatically rounds the line segments for connectors, which is something that has been requested by a few people and that I know people were doing manually as a postprocessing step.
We'll want to borrow that code to add to our live path effect arsenal, when that functionality progresses.
You mean that if a connector is attached to a circle the connector is drawn to the edge, rather than the bounding box, right? This one is high on my todo list. You're right, it's not too much work and most of the necessary code is there. Just a matter of finding time to work on it right now.
Could you point me to the file and function where one would change the endpoint of the connector? This might be a simple enough project for me. And while I realize this isn't as flexible as we want the tool to end up, it won't hurt me to try coding this in the meanwhile.
Aaron Spike
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