5:23 p.m.
Woo-Hoo
Thanks to Kurt I was able to pull together an extension. It is
ungainly slow because of the whole "calling another instance of
Inkscape" deal , but it does work. This provides an option of
restacking the selected objects in a direction (left to right, right
to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top) as well as the point of each
object to compare (top left, bottom middle, etc).
Attached are before and after samples, as well as the extension. It
registers as "Effects->Modify Path->Restack"
I am running on Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Apr 28 2007, so ymmv if
running .45
-Rob A>
5:44 p.m.
Very cool, you demonstration's a good one but I suspect there are all
sorts of other applications for such a tool. I have a
making-slides-in-inkscape program that also creeps along because of
invoking inkscape many times to get positions of things... on my todo
list is a patch to add a switch for inkscape to dump x,y,w,h for
everything - hopefully that would help you too?
Cheers -Terry
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:23:42 -0500
"Rob Antonishen" <rob.antonishen@...155...> wrote:
Woo-Hoo
Thanks to Kurt I was able to pull together an extension. It is
ungainly slow because of the whole "calling another instance of
Inkscape" deal , but it does work. This provides an option of
restacking the selected objects in a direction (left to right, right
to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top) as well as the point of each
object to compare (top left, bottom middle, etc).
Attached are before and after samples, as well as the extension. It
registers as "Effects->Modify Path->Restack"
I am running on Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Apr 28 2007, so ymmv if
running .45
-Rob A>
7:07 p.m.
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On Nov 29, 2007 11:44 AM, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...12...> wrote:
Very cool, you demonstration's a good one but I suspect there are
all
sorts of other applications for such a tool. I have a
making-slides-in-inkscape program that also creeps along because of
invoking inkscape many times to get positions of things... on my todo
list is a patch to add a switch for inkscape to dump x,y,w,h for
everything - hopefully that would help you too?
Excellent! Terry, do you think you can do this before 0.46? Looks like
the lack of this prevents a lot of nice extension from appearing, so
the earlier we fix this the better.
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
7:45 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
It would speed things up, for sure. The code currently iterated
through every item in the selections, calling inkscape once to get
this information then parsing through it to extract the selected nodes
would be great.
Even better would be if the x,y,w,h could be exposed via DOM so that
no shell out to inkscape would be required.
Also, I think this extension should work in .45 if the optiongroup was
not used... say a number choice 1-4 for the direction and 1-9 for the
anchor. But that is ugly :)
-Rob A>
On Nov 29, 2007 11:44 AM, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...12...> wrote:
Very cool, you demonstration's a good one but I suspect there are
all
sorts of other applications for such a tool. I have a
making-slides-in-inkscape program that also creeps along because of
invoking inkscape many times to get positions of things... on my todo
list is a patch to add a switch for inkscape to dump x,y,w,h for
everything - hopefully that would help you too?
Cheers -Terry
5:52 p.m.
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Just an update, to work with the lxml parser (in the current
development version) the extension has changed . I have attached the
new file (no changes to the .inx)
-Rob A>
5:56 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
On Jan 9, 2008 11:52 AM, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonishen@...155...> wrote:
Just an update, to work with the lxml parser (in the current
development version) the extension has changed . I have attached the
new file (no changes to the .inx)
Thanks, so has anyone tested it? Is it good for including into the distribution?
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
7:49 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
On Jan 9, 2008 11:52 AM, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonishen@...155...> wrote:
Just an update, to work with the lxml parser (in the current
development version) the extension has changed . I have attached the
new file (no changes to the .inx)
-Rob A>
Sorry I never replied. I didn't notice the first two messages you
sent. Good to see you got it figured out.
Also note that this fixed bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/174701
added a new command line switch to get all four important aspects of
an object at once (x, y, width, height), instead of having to query
each one separately. By rewriting to use that switch, it should make
the script about 4 times as fast. Unfortunately, I don't have a
development version to test how to make it work correctly, so I don't
have any rewriting tips.
8:52 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
On Jan 9, 2008 1:49 PM, Kurt Hutchinson wrote:
Also note that this fixed bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/174701
added a new command line switch to get all four important aspects of
an object at once (x, y, width, height), instead of having to query
each one separately. By rewriting to use that switch, it should make
the script about 4 times as fast. Unfortunately, I don't have a
development version to test how to make it work correctly, so I don't
have any rewriting tips.
"This patch adds the command line switch --query-all which dumps
id,x,y,w,h for all objects with an Id."
I'm thinking this will return a list of every ID's item in the svg
file, so I would have to parse out the x,y,height and width of the
objects in the selected group from the list of all objects.
-Rob A>
9:59 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
On Jan 9, 2008 2:52 PM, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonishen@...155...> wrote:
"This patch adds the command line switch --query-all which
dumps
id,x,y,w,h for all objects with an Id."
I'm thinking this will return a list of every ID's item in the svg
file, so I would have to parse out the x,y,height and width of the
objects in the selected group from the list of all objects.
-Rob A>
Ah, could be. I should have read the patch notes closer.
4:47 p.m.
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Thanks Kurt-
Attached is the updated extension that used the --querry-all command
line switched introduced here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/174701
This only works for the latest development versions...
-Rob A>
10:18 p.m.
New subject: Fwd: Automatically set Z-order
I have updated the restack z-order extension with three more options:
specifying an arbitrary angle (rather than the four orthogonal
choices), radial inward, and radial outward.
A zip of the extension and sample images are attached to the wishlist
bug I created at launchpad. This needs a recent .46 devel versionof
inkscape as it relies on a couple of features only in devel.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/182002
-Rob A>
7:15 p.m.
Rob Antonishen wrote the following on 11/29/2007 11:23 AM:
Woo-Hoo
Thanks to Kurt I was able to pull together an extension. It is
ungainly slow because of the whole "calling another instance of
Inkscape" deal , but it does work. This provides an option of
restacking the selected objects in a direction (left to right, right
to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top) as well as the point of each
object to compare (top left, bottom middle, etc).
Attached are before and after samples, as well as the extension. It
registers as "Effects->Modify Path->Restack"
I am running on Inkscape 0.46dev+devel, built Apr 28 2007, so ymmv if
running .45
-Rob A>
Hey, congratulations. That could be a handy plug-in.
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