Hi Hans,
thank you for trying this. Is there a place where we can download the
patches?
thank you!
--dmg
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Hans Rochus <gorckelhotl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your very in depth answer. I just got to try this two days ago
> and got it working!. I've added a few more points to the existing polyline
> inside continue_stroke() to create an arrow head. Now I wanted to switch
> between the ordinary ruler and my modified one. This was quite a hurdle and
> certainly isn't nice looking code. I didn't want to create a new tool from
> scratch, as that would have taken a lot longer. Instead I added a new int
> to the UIData struct, that serves as a switch for the different "ruler
> tools". This int can be modified by a GtkMenuToolButton in the toolbar,
> which has multiple radio items (the button itself does nothing). All these
> items are connected to the same handler and by comparing the sender's label
> to strings the int value gets set (What could possibly go wrong? Well
> translation is an issue for sure. I think there is a possibility to send
> this data over the gpointer user_data, but I didn't try that one). With
> this information I can select the tool that will be applied
> inside continue_stroke(). Currently the UI looks like this (i don't know if
> embedded pictures will work here):
>
> [image: Inline-Bild 1]
> [image: Inline-Bild 2]
> Its not really clean and forward, but I have to leave it at that for now.
> Changing the ruler toggle button into a radio control required changing
> code in parts of Xournal that caused a myriad of new problems. I didn't
> want to face those without a debugger.
> Maybe you have a better idea on how to handle all this. As it is now, I'm
> quite happy as these were my most wanted features.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Mo.
>
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