bulia byak wrote:
On Dec 18, 2007 1:36 PM, Brian Vanderburg II <BrianVanderburg2@...2404...> wrote:
So that any transforms I apply to the gradient used by the rectangle will also affect the ellipse.
Just snap together the ends of the rectangle and ellipse gradients in Gradient tool (with both objects selected), then in this tool you will be able to transform both gradients as if they were one. Or, copy the rect after transforming and paste its style onto the ellipse, this will paste the gradient position too.
Okay that works good and the 'copy style' works best, as it actually causes both the box and the ellipse to use the 'same' gradient, and not just identical copies of that gradient. I just have to go back and change the stroke width or other minor changes. Perhaps 'paste style' could have a dialog open up where the user can specify what 'parts' of the style are to be pasted (fill, stroke, stroke style)
Perhaps something that would be nice would be a 'graph' editor for gradients (and for other things maybe as well) that would show the 'real' gradient, and any 'dummy' child gradients connected, grandchild gradients,etc, or something where you can define the actual relationship however you want.
You have XML editor for that. It can be made more convenient of course, but I don't think we need some kind of tool specifically for gradient hierarchy. It's already confusing for many users as it is.
One think that could make it a little less 'confusing' is if the 'top level' gradient could be given names. Some things the properties dialogs allows the editing of a name, but it would be nicer if I could select 'BlueEye' as a gradient than 'linearGradient7301'. The same could go for patterns as well. Or perhaps the 'XML editor' or could have 'mass rename' function to change one name to another and automatically update any references to that name.
Brian Vanderburg II