Re: Selection in curve-object... again

[Bernhard Herzog]

Ralf Engels <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> I am again trying to figure out the selection in curve object.
> It seems to be broken.
> 
> curveobject.c has, in principle, all functions to manage the selection. Every 
> path stores for every node the status and there are functions to set and 
> query the status.

Correct. 

It is limited to keeping track of which nodes are selected, though. One
case that isn't handled for instance is selecting a point on the curve
that's not a node. That's the case you came across in SelectPoint:

> On the other side there is editbezier.py which does this when a single point 
> is selected:
> 
>     def SelectPoint(self, p, rect, device, mode):
[...]

SelectPoint is only called when the user click on the curve outside of a
node handle. A click on a handle leads to a call to SelectHandle.

> Should curveobject.c handle the selection (I think not) or should 
> editbezier.py do this?

That the selection is stored in the curve object and not the editor is a
bit of a kludge. It was simply the easiest way to handle it. Now that
it's possible to have several editors for the same document this has
become a bug. The selection should be indeed handled completely in
editbezier.


> By the way, 
> is there a irc channel so we can chat a little bit about problems?

So far, no.


   Bernhard

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