Bouton's Wish List for Group Participation on v 11

[gwpriester]

I wonder if the reason that some of these suggestions have not been implemented previously has to do with the basic program itself and what is easy and/or possible to do and what is not easy or even impossible to do with the current code?

It would be interesting to get some feedback on this from some of the programmers.

[mwenz]

I wonder if the reason that some of these suggestions have not been implemented previously has to do with the basic program itself and what is easy and/or possible to do and what is not easy or even impossible to do with the current code?

It would be interesting to get some feedback on this from some of the programmers.

Most of the features can be programmed in, well, just about any language, much less fixing issues already present. I think the real issue is allocated resources, vision, drive—despite Charles's statement to the contrary...

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[handrawn]

someone, back in the last decade I think [quite possibly Xhris] said that the core engine of the program was written in machine code, hence the speed of execution at the time

so it may be a victim of early success, since that aint so easy to interface with, especially if the programmers that did it are no longer with the company

[Gare]

Illustrator has had this feature for a couple of versions now, and I’d love to see something like this implemented in Xara.

Whenever you draw a path that has an outline width, you can change the width at a control point by using the Width tool, the connecting paths taper off, and what you can do with a path is turn it into true calligraphy, or whatever you like.



-g

[handrawn]

expression 3.3 you mentioned will do that [though by mapping a profile rather than directly but still dead easy to use], and you can save the profiles and draw with them

[PhilM]

Hi everyone,

Camelot is mainly written in C++. The graphics primitives, and various other subsystems that need strong performance, are written in assembler. Other modules are written in various languages including Javascript.

There are several million lines of C++ source code and the earliest comment is dated 18th of March 1993.

Because the program is so large, so complex and so old, there are knock-on consequences to even the smallest change. Features that would appear to be easy can become complex very quickly but conversely, because there's so much useful code to leverage, sometimes features that appear incredibly difficult turn out to be easy.

The oldest and most fundamental data structures used by the program would now take huge amounts of time and effort to change. Nothing is impossible but cost/benefit considerations means that basic systems are unlikely to change unless there's an overwhelming reason to do so. An example of this is the coordinate system, which remains signed 32bit even in the 64bit version of the program and this, combined with the maximum zoom of 25601%, limits the maximum allowed page size. (Yes, there is a good technical reason for the maximum page size but we could increase it within the limitations of the 32bit coordinate system by dynamically reducing the maximum zoom...)

The V11 Pro feature set has not yet been finalised.

Phil

[handrawn]

cheers for that Phil, always good to know these things, thanks

[Albacore]

Yeah, Gary B, have used this frequently in cartoons but it is a bit of a fiddle when your working in small areas like eyes & mouths. You have to double click the tool and open the dialogue box and give the end points a value and then the sides to make it idiot proof for me but of course you then can save it to your library. No I just want plain old brushes that you can do 1 to 5 here in Vectortuts: http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials...el--vector-301
Forget the rest the borders, scatter, maybe don't with the art brush it's handy!