[ANN] Beta Release for penToolv032d

Alejandro Tejada capellan2000 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 23 14:45:54 EDT 2005


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: capellan2000 at yahoo.com
> 
> Thanks in advance for your time to test 
> and report the errors in this stack. ;-)
> 
> Have a nice weekend. :-)
> 
> al


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