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