Hi Guys, Thanks for the enthusiasm, I have to highlight some important points:
1. I started this as a hack initially to control some drawing constraints, then it grows to something bigger. 2. I used the standard Inkscape extension mechanism. So this "plugin" is a simple python extension. 3. I am not an Autocad user, so I can't compare with Autocad's lisp macro system. 4. What you get: In your script you can manipulate the current svg document. You can do whatever you want with it. 5. I have coded a general purpose Path object wrapper to create and modify paths in an OOP fashion. 6. The code of this extension is simple, not rocket science ;) 7. I am on travel, but next week I will push it to gitlab. 8. There is a lot of room for improvement. 9. Two more screenshots attached ;)
Cheers, Frank.
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 4:02 AM C R <cajhne@...155...> wrote:
Really exciting news! Thanks for your work!
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, 03:27 , <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
Dear Frank Martínez,
This work looks really exciting. I'd love to get you in touch with Thomas Wiesner who has done a similar work in progress merge request:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/417
This functionality is similar, although not exactly the same. I believe though that issues around how python accesses the internal svg document are going to be the same.
The landing plan for such a feature would have to be post 1.0, so if you were able to produce a branch on GitLab, then we would review it but only want to merge it in after the 1.0 release is out the door.
You can also join us at https://chat.inkscape.org to talk more to other developers as well as sending your message to the inkscape-devel mailing list.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 20:42 -0500, Frank Martínez wrote:
Hi Guys,
Inkscape is amazing!, I am a professional software developer, I have been working in an embedded scripting plugin for Inkscape, I started doing it for my own purposes (designing electric guitars and CNC parts) And now I have complete support for python scripting inside inkscape. I will release the code as open source in Github or Gitlab as soon as I can write some documentation. The attached screenshot shows how it looks. The plugin has its own code editor with syntax highlight, compilation check, and run. It uses only python and gtk3, my working environment is Linux Mint, I am not sure if it will work out of the box in windows or mac yet, but i am pretty sure it will run in all platforms eventually soon.
The scripting environment gives full access to the svg document, xml manipulation and also Object Oriented wrappers (mainly for path creation and manipulation). Full python environment is also available. The scripting code is stored inside the document (<script> tags) and you can import external libraries too of course.
I hope some contributions will make the project better with time. This is not a macro system, you can not record actions or invoke GUI actions, you can just write scripts inside the document and manipulate the document itself, move, transform, change attributes, create objects etc.. from python scripts.
All your feedback will be welcome and I will be very pleased if the project result useful for the community.
Cheers,
Frank.
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