Hey People,
Curious if I get some reactions THIS time... I'm playing around with Adobe Flex at the moment and one feature stroke me as being realy usefull: containers. These containers are basically boxes, but they apply lay-out rules to the objects they contain. There is for example a Vbox and a Hbox, that align and distribute the objects they contain automatically in respectivaly vertical and a horizontal manner. There's also a grid container that tries to put its "children" in a grid of equal dimensions. Inkscape has already the posibility to allign, distribute and grid-allign objects, but if it could be done _automatically_ ? I have no idea about the SVG-specification, but a crude way of doing it could be creating a script that iterates through all the groups in the document that have a certain attribute connected to them and applying the aformentioned lay-out rules on the objects they contain - effectively resetting the x and y values of them. If this script is just an "effect" instead of an "auto-update" - so be it.
This lay-out-container feature would be very practical in creating scheme's and such and GUI-mock ups.
Regards,
M.
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joshua A. Andler Sent: 14. juni 2007 21:49 To: Inkscape User Community Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Layers Dialog Mockup.
MenTaLguY wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:31:39 -0700, "Joshua A. Andler"
<joshua@...233...> wrote:
We could certainly try it and see how it works out.
Just out of curiosity... is anyone inspired to actually implement it?
;)
Are you volunteering? ;)
Nope. :)
It's something that's been on my personal list for a while, but I've
simply not had much time for Inkscape hacking these days. I won't object if someone else does it, so long as they don't mess up the existing layers functionality.
I know it's been on your personal list, which is kinda why I was asking. But I also knew that you haven't had much inkscape hacking time (but you've been fighting for the greater good)... I really wasn't sure if we were just rehashing the old conversation again for the new folks or what. :) So, are there any volunteers? I'm sure that if people need a little coaching that the dev community would be happy to help.
-Josh
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