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Draft: OnCanvas Marker Editing Mode 2

Rachana Podaralla requested to merge podarallarachana/inkscape:onCanvasMarkerEditing into master

OnCanvas Marker Editing Overview: The goal of this project is to allow users to edit markers on-canvas in real time (Please look here for more detailed info: inkscape/devel/mentoring#2 (closed)). Currently this is not possible since markers are just reference objects. Once this project is complete, users will be able to edit markers on-canvas using two mode:

  • Normal Marker Mode (Option 1 shown in gif)
    • handles marker properties like refX, refY, markerWidth, markerHeight, orient
  • Entered Marker Mode (Option 2 shown in gif)
    • Enters the marker and gets its individual shapes. If a marker contains multiple individual shapes like rectangles, paths, arcs, etc..these will all be editable in this mode. For example, rectangle width/height/rounding can be edited here

markerEditingOptions

*Note: This tool is still in its development phase and a lot of known bugs are present - if you're testing it out and it is an obvious bug then I probably know about it and have it on my todo list lol. To test it out though, you can click the placeholder arrow button under the text button in the lefthand toolbar to enter marker editing mode (this button will be moved to the Fill & Stroke Dialogue eventually). Shift+Z is also being used as a placeholder to toggle between the two marker editing modes.

Edited by Rachana Podaralla

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