[ANN] Taming Fills

Karl karl.ramberg at comhem.se
Wed Aug 8 13:56:55 UTC 2007


subbukk wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007 11:39 pm, Jerome Peace wrote:
>   
>> Solution: Have handles for the fill that allow
>> manipulation of all the parameters until the user is
>> satisfied. Then allow the removal of those handles.
>>     
> Jerome,
>
> It is nice to be able to control the fills directly through handles, but the 
> handles are too many. A simple 'rubber band' with two handles (anchored and 
> movable) is sufficient. Circular gradient will need a ellipse with two 
> orthogonal 'rubber band' lines.
>
> Use a color dropper on a handle to change the color. Drag anchored handle to 
> change origin and moveable handle to scale and rotate. Shift click on the 
> rubber band to dismiss the handle. This would be consistent with operations 
> on mixed curve and border width etc.
>
> Regards .. Subbu
>
>
>   
If you turn on preference 'propertySheetFromHandle' you get a nice tool 
to make many border, color and fill style changes.

Karl



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