External material/graphics empty samples (was: Re: Simple Drawing Ability)

2011-04-23 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Il 20/04/2011 18:25, Jens Nöckel ha scritto: On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: AFAIK, after the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg154697.html there was no actual implementation of this feature, for creating quickly empty external files over whi

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2011-04-20 Thread Jens Nöckel
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 20/09/2009 15:10, Tommaso Cucinotta ha scritto: >> Just a simple button that creates an empty drawing copying a template >> from a folder (and opening an external editor on it) seems really the >> right way to go, it would solve your part

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2011-04-19 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Il 20/09/2009 15:10, Tommaso Cucinotta ha scritto: Just a simple button that creates an empty drawing copying a template from a folder (and opening an external editor on it) seems really the right way to go, it would solve your particular problem, it would leave you with the complete freedom to p

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-26 Thread Afief Halumi
Actually I'm a CS major, so basically we don't have a course that does not include tons of Math. Thanks for understanding. On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Sunday 20 September 2009 09:10:15 Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >>>

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-26 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 20 September 2009 09:10:15 Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Afief Halumi ha scritto: Personally I think the best way is to implement both the external and the simple embedded editor. There are so many editors out there, that it sounds me crazy to in

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-21 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-18, Afief Halumi wrote: > Basically we need a png for gimp and an svg for inkscape, and a bunch of other templates as Skencil.svg for skencil, sketch.svg for sketch, Dia.dia for dia, Paint.png for Windows Paint, mtPaint.png for mtPaint (mtpaint.sf.net) ipe.pdf and ipeTe

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 20 September 2009 09:10:15 Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Afief Halumi ha scritto: > > Personally I think the best way is to implement both the external and > > the simple embedded editor. > > There are so many editors out there, that it sounds me crazy to invent > yet another one..., and th

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-20 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Afief Halumi ha scritto: > Surely a less MS-Paint level piece of code that is almost completely > self contained will take next to no resources to maintain. > > Dia is great for the task it is made for, but when you're in a lecture > trying to take notes Dia is simply too slow, especially when you

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Christian Ridderström schreef: On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: I would appreciate some pointers on how to implement this feature. I think a simple Qt4 drawing area in a separate window should do for the interface, and as for saving $filename_files/image$num.png sounds

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Afief Halumi
Surely a less MS-Paint level piece of code that is almost completely self contained will take next to no resources to maintain. Dia is great for the task it is made for, but when you're in a lecture trying to take notes Dia is simply too slow, especially when you have a stylus. Personally I think

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/18/09, Afief Halumi wrote: > Obviously there are too many drawing editors, but for example gimp > takes 5 seconds to start up, inkscape takes 3(on my laptop), which > although not too big an issue it does break the attention and forces > the user to wait for the computer to get ready, that

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Afief Halumi
> I agree. There are enough drawing editors of various kinds. > But of course it would be nice to easily > "create+insert a new external object" > and have it created from scratch. LyX could even suggest a > default filename, so only those that care about the filename > need to type one. Obviously

RE: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: I would appreciate some pointers on how to implement this feature. I think a simple Qt4 drawing area in a separate window should do for the interface, and as for saving $filename_files/image$num.png sounds reasonable. I use MS Paint to

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Pavel Sanda
Helge Hafting wrote: > Instead of the "file not found!" thing, why not make the first dialog > with two buttons: "Open", to be used for existing files, and > "Create new" to do just that. No error to be corrected by the user this > way. we have already some kind of this discussion in bugzilla and

RE: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I would appreciate some pointers on how to implement >this feature. I think a simple Qt4 drawing area in a >separate window should do for the interface, and as >for saving $filename_files/image$num.png sounds >reasonable. I use MS Paint to make a simple drawing, then I can immediately copy-past

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Guenter Milde wrote: * In my view, instead of coding one more crippled drawing editor (which I would have to learn to use), a better integration with external editors is the way to go. This also allows users the choice between several editors and file formats. I agree. There are enough

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 18/09/2009 09:07, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-09-17, Afief Halumi wrote: One thing I do miss in Lyx though is the ability to take up my stylus and draw whatever physical experiment is being explained and having the drawing automatically appear in lyx. What I currently do wh

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-18 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-17, Afief Halumi wrote: > One thing I do miss in Lyx though is the ability to take up my stylus > and draw whatever physical experiment is being explained and having > the drawing automatically appear in lyx. > What I currently do whenever a drawing comes up is the following: start >

Re: Simple Drawing Ability

2009-09-17 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Afief Halumi ha scritto: One thing I do miss in Lyx though is the ability to take up my stylus and draw whatever physical experiment is being explained and having the drawing automatically appear in lyx. What I currently do whenever Isn't it already possible to associate an external editor to