On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:46:57AM +1000, Kinsley Turner wrote:
True, but it could save a temporary copy every <N> changes or so. Something like ~/inkscape-tmp.<instance#>.svg Then nuke it when the window for instance-x is closed properly. [...]
That's not a bad idea, and probably wouldn't be *too* hard. Would you be interested in working on implementing it?
I dunno, I had toyed with the idea of fetching the CVS. But I have two jobs, and three kids... By the time I finish anything everyone else would have it debugged and shipping :)
Heh, yeah. Well maybe someone else will take an interest in it. Autosave isn't on our roadmap presently, so it's unlikely to get done, but it's straightforward enough and important enough that we might get a volunteer willing to do it.
What I *was* thinking about was using a fractal terrain algorithm to automatically generate RPG maps. Populate the higher points with trees & snow graphics (maybe the odd volcano), Plot rivers down the (un)natural contours, put town and cities on the flatlands where rivers cross etc.
Thought this would be a cool hack.
Yeah, that'd definitely be nice! In fact, I bet you could do it with an extension program written in python or perl or whatever.
Probably should write some nice python objects to make plugin writing easier. That might actually benefit someone.
Actually with Perl I've found you can get a lot of mileage just using the stock XML parsing/writing library, however there's also an SVG lib. I think Python has similar libs.
Bryce