Re: Graphos news

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

thank you for the testing time. I am most interested in regression bugs, 
but will mark othe rimportant stuff for the next release

William F. Adams wrote:
> Trying it out now. Some observations (testing on Mac OS X 10.6.8):
>
>   - toolbar gets covered by the Window when clicking the green zoom button to 
> enlarge the latter
>   - Zoom | Fit Page results in a tiny page
>   - Zoom | Fit Width doesn't enlarge the display to the width
Zooming in/out is done by predefined increments, thus it gets 
approximated o the next one. With the improvement of the zoom handling, 
I will check if it is feasible to add more increments at least. "Perfect 
fit" would need another mechanism which I do not want to implement for now.
>   - Magnifying glass doesn't honour the typical behaviour of <alt> clicking 
> zooming out
On Gnustep, you have to click ctrl-alt which is strange, I will check 
why. I don't remember it that way indeed.
>   - holding down <Command> should switch one to the solid arrow tool
>   - it shouldn't be necessary to switch to the hollow arrow tool to manipulate 
> a node --- the tool should be intelligent enough to allow one to directly 
> manipulate when one wishes
I think it is better so, I extra changed it that way, while it is not 
usual, it works just better in my opinion, especially with drawings 
where elements stack. I will test it further also with regarding to 
tablet use. On my blog I explain why of the change, it affects both 
"auto-select" as well as "auto-unselect" of the white arrow tool.
>   - circle tool constrains to a circle --- no way to draw an ellipse
Indeed. That will need a file format change, it is something to add in 
the next release(s).
> The pen tool is much better --- still overly constrains when holding <shift> to 
> place a new node, but much better. Puzzled by the following:
The point is - I actually didn't change it, I was never able to 
reproduce your previous bugs. However you might have benefitted from the 
general clean-up and 64bit fixes.
>   - how does one delete a node on a path? Delete didn't work.
It appears that you can neither add nor remove a node, but it has always 
been so. That's a feature to add.
>   - I couldn't resume drawing a path --- select the pen tool, draw an open 
> path, select the object, select the beginning or ending node, switch to the pen 
> tool and click --- new path instead of continuing.
Indeed, that's unexpected, I'll try to fix that.

Thanks,
   Riccardo