Re: [ANN] Beta Release for penToolv032d
Hi Developers, Thanks a lot for sending your comments about this beta version of penToolv32d! When you change from a tool (like the Edit Selection tool, the Add-point tool, the Delete-point tool and the Convert-point tool) to any other tool, this selected state do not change. The graphic still shows all the vertex, control points and handles. These points should dissapear. You are right, these vertex, control points and handles should disappear or retract. i'm going to use a custom property in the palette or the graphic to recognize and change his state when the user change tools. How did i change the shape of a graphic? 1- Choose the Edit Selection tool in the palette penTool and click on the graphic. A blue line with vertex, control points and handles appears around the graphic. 2- Move the vertex and control points to reshape the graphic. 3- When you finish editing the graphic, double click on the border of the blue graphic, and the graphic redraws itself with the new shape that you had edited. In other tools, the graphics redraws itself as soon as the user left the mouse button. They are triggering the redraw action using a mouseup message. i choose to use a mousedoubleup message to add some fancy options like create a duplicate of the object. At last moment, this option produced some problems, but later i'll add this functionality. When you use the Edit Selection tool, a blue graphic appears in the border of selected graphic. How could i change this colour to another? To change this color, you had to edit the script of the Edit Selection tool. It's hardwired there, but there are plans to add a preference to change this color at will or the script choose a color with contrast to the border color. Wait for this in a next release You are using two different ways to show the vertex, controls and handlers in the graphic. Could you settle for one of them? Yes, eventually, i will use only one method to show and manipulate the vertex, control points and handles. When testing for the tools: add-point, delete-point and convert-point is finished then i'll select the method of the Edit selection tool. Could you add textures to the color palette? Eventually, yes. ;-) What are your plans for this tool? After finished this beta, i'll add text and image support for the export and import stack. Did you accept colaborations to finish this stack? Sure! Malte Brill offered help and i told him to check the code for importing Adobe ilustrator files. After checking his work with the arcade engine, i think that he could help with the Star tool, adding a lot of different shapes. i hope to convert this PenTool project in a collaborative effort. We just have to wait until experienced developers find the time to help. i really want to see that this collaboration happen anytime. It's an invaluable opportunity to learn from my mistakes and from their wise code. :-) Thanks a lot for your time to test this tool! Keep sending your comments to my e-mail, Have a nice day! al Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Beta Release for penToolv032d
hi Alejandro Having trouble accessing aulasdigitales.net domain to check your great work re: penTool files. Do you have another download location? regards alex ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
[ANN] Beta Release for penToolv032d
Hi Developers, Download the stack: penToolv032d from: http://aulasdigitales.net/penToolv032d.zip This Beta version has many glitches, so you must not run this stack while working in other important projects in RR, MC or DC. This release include tools (in Beta) to add, delete and convert vertex and control points in vector graphics created with the tools of this stack. Report errors (with recipe to replicate, if possible) to my email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance for your time to test and report the errors in this stack. ;-) Have a nice weekend. :-) al Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [ANN] Beta Release for penToolv032d
Hi Developers, Thanks a lot to all of you who take time to test this stack! :-) Issues reported: The Add point tool produces a loop that only could be stopped by quitting the Development environment. i suspect that this happens when you fail to click exactly over the second vertex point to add a point between two vertex points. i had another idea to implement this tool and hopefully it would require only one click, not three clicks, like it requires now. Actually to prevent this possible error, i included a cursor change to signal that you are exactly over a vertex point... but looks like it's not working in this release. i had it working thursday, but now, on friday it stop functioning. Surely this is a problem that started when i copy and paste elements from other stacks... The graphic dissapeared when i click on it with the direct selection tool (to edit their vertex or control points) This happen when there is mismatch between the custom properties of the graphic named bpoints and cpoints. i had to implement a better checking mechanism to failsafe the operations between these custom properties. An undo feature could help a lot until i device such failsafe mechanism. Could anyone help to create a multiple undo mechanism for editing operations of vertex and control points? (like moving, adding, deleting, converting, etc...) The convert point tool has a mind of his own... It converts some points, but others not. These choices are visible in the code of this tool. initially, i thought that this tool must only change a vertex to one of two states: Change a vertex without control points to a vertex with two control points or Change a vertex with one or two control points to a vertex without control points This idea proved to be very unsatisfactory, so i changed to a result based in the context of vertex adjacents. The result is the actual code, but it is far from perfected. Any concrete recomendation (with examples or screenshots) to improve it is more than welcome. The star tool does not have any code! Good Question! :-D Malte Brill and Jim Hurley have code to draw many different kind of shapes. i'm sure they will fill this gap, as their time permits! ;-) Thanks in advance for all your reviews of this stack! Have a nice weekend! :-) al on Sat, 23 Jul 2005 Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Developers, Download the stack: penToolv032d from: http://aulasdigitales.net/penToolv032d.zip This Beta version has many glitches, so you must not run this stack while working in other important projects in RR, MC or DC. This release include tools (in Beta) to add, delete and convert vertex and control points in vector graphics created with the tools of this stack. Report errors (with recipe to replicate, if possible) to my email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance for your time to test and report the errors in this stack. ;-) Have a nice weekend. :-) al Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
