I think I found an acceptable solution, similar to what we do for markup notes. The idea is that you can only select a note in freehand tool mode by a simple click event (down-up, without a drag). After selecting a note you can still edit, delete, or move/drag it, but when nothing was selected, dragging the mouse/pen will draw, also when it starts on top of a previous note, and new freehand notes won't be initially selected.
Christiaan On Dec 12, 2010, at 2:45, Jason Grout wrote: > On 12/11/10 6:59 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> Basically, yes, that is what I was suggesting. But as you also imply >> by your last remark, it is not as simple as I was hoping, which does >> not make this a viable alternative, sorry. I was hoping that the >> tablet or pen would make you easily switch between pen/cursor/eraser >> mode in some way (using some switch or something), but searching it I >> came to the conclusion that this is not as easily (or generally) >> supported. Quite frankly, I would not really know in generally what >> determines these device types (btw I think the cursor tool is often >> referred to as "puck" in tablet speak.) > > I think you might be able to tell at least something about whether you > have a tablet stylus or a mouse from the pressure > attribute/variable/property/whatever it is called. I spent a little bit > of time looking at if we could use the pressure of the stylus to vary > the line width, but it looked more involved than I had time for, and as > you say, it's not a paint program. > > I just noticed that if I draw a freehand stroke (even after my patches), > and then click the button on the stylus that corresponds to a right > click (or just right-click on the trackpad/mouse), I can edit the > properties of the current stroke to change the color/linestyle, etc. > I also just noticed that if I open the color or line style dialog, I can > still drag the colors and linestyles onto any freehand stroke, even in > my patched freehand mode. So it is easy to change the properties of > whatever was just drawn without having to change the tool, even after my > patches. However, it may still not be easy enough for the official Skim > application. > > Thanks, > > Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
