On Dec 29, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Sanat Ganu wrote:
Hello I am a newbie to Inkscape and scripting in general. I am trying to build an animation extension with Inkscape for doing simple animations as a project in my multimedia course. For that I need to add a timeline in Inkscape and write the timing data for a particular object manipulated by the user into my animation file. Is this possible with Inkscape extensions? Could anyone guide me in finding a resource who could help me with this?
Well... the first thing it look at is probably the anmation elements in SVG for actually storing things. http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/animate.html
With the current mechanism Inkscape invokes an extension script and feeds it the current SVG on stdin. Then it reads a replacing result from the extension's stdout.
Actually adding new code into Inkscape itself is probably the easier way to get an interactive UI, including playback preview, going. That, however, takes C++.