Maarten van der Velde wrote:
Just to join the brainstorm: maybe we could look at the autocad way of dealing with things here? AutoCad uses (used?) a DOS-like command bar on the bottom of the screen, where you could enter coordinates directly. For example, if you want do draw a line, you can just click on two different places in the screen, and the line would be created. But, you could also use this command-line instead. First clicking the line icon, then clicking this bar, then entering (for example)
5,5 [enter] 10,20 [enter] But,...
One could also input
5,5 [enter] @5,15 [enter]
Where the "@" would indicate relative coordinates compared to the previous point.
Also, AutoCad would give you the oppurtunity to enter
0,0 [enter] @20<10
Creating a line 20 millimeters long at an angle of 10 degrees.
I am not saying that we should implement it in exactly this way, but the @-way of thinking might help?
That is something we could write as an extension so that people could try it out and see how they like it.
Aaron Spike