On 10 Jan 2009, at 18:47, Alain Schremmer wrote:
There are several things I don’t think are quite right with “dash”
in 3.0.1 under 4.10.11.
Of course, this may be a case of my misunderstanding how things work.
(1)
a) Draw a horizontal straight line of width 1
b) Look at it at 1600%
c) Set the dash to 1, 2, 4, 2
d) Copy the above dash setting
e) Click on another line
f) I cannot paste the setting to the dash of the other line
I have replicated this: Mac Pro, Leopard
That seems to be more general in that I cannot copy-paste the stroke
width either.
ditto
That is a bit of a bother,
(2)
a) Set the dash to 1, 2, 4, 2
b) Select part of the dash, say 4, 2
I am unable to select this and was unaware of this being a feature of
Intaglio.
Is it a feature? That is should I be able to perform such a select?
I have never thought of a select as acting over part of a line or
that it should be acting over part of a line.
Perhaps it would be handy to be able to select parts of lines but that
starts to introduce complications into the interface. For example,
consider the process of selecting a whole bunch of items in order to
copy or group them.
Currently (on my machine) if you do not include the entirety of a
given line then that line will not be selected, but under the proposed
scheme we have the possibility of grouping part of that line and
leaving the rest ungrouped, or of copying part of the line and not the
rest. I rather like the fact that one only selects something if one
selects all of it because it would make it difficult in complicated
drawings where there are many overlapping objects, to select just some
of these. Thus to provide the ability to swap between these two ways
of selecting things would require the introduction of additional
modes. Modes in my opinion are to be avoided as much as possible since
it is the easiest thing in the word to forget what mode one is in and
commit errors as a result. This if I recall correctly was a major
finding of HCI research done some years ago.
It is mu understanding that the cost of an easy to use interface is a
restriction not necessarily on its functionality but on the number of
commands which combine available functionality in interesting ways.
These combinations do not increase functionality but provide
shortcuts. Occasionally useful, their cumulative effect is to create
often unmanageable complexity. In my view the beauty of Intaglio is
that it provides great functionality with minimum complexity. It would
be sad to loose that.
c) Cut the selection
d) The whole setting disappears
(3)
a) Set some dash for a line
b) The line is dashed correspondingly
c) I cannot save before the line is deselected
Did not replicate this, saved ok.
That’s in fact more general:
(4)
a) Draw a line
b) I cannot save before the line is deselected
Did not replicate this, saved ok.
but
c) After the line has been deselected, reselect it
d) I can save
Not very consistent
(5)
a) Draw a dash line
b) Duplicate the line or draw another line (with the same width and
the same dash)
c) Select both lines
d) The common width is shown but the common dash is not.
replicated
all the best
Julius
Not very consistent
Can any of the above be confirmed?
Regards
–schremmer
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