Ottadini wrote:Quirk 2: while adding more lines to the drawing, using the snap-to-xxx features, heaps of my nodes report that they are smooth nodes, even though I have converted them all. ~suv is probably more qualified to comment on that one It would appear to be a bug, to me, at first glance. I can reproduce that, and don't know the status. I was just using Ben's wording for clarity.Īh, I see what you mean about your ""quirk"" #2. If it really bothers you to have to click twice on the 'Cusp nodes' button, then click once on the 'Make selected segments (straight) lines' button (or use the keyboard shortcut 'Shift+L' within the node tool context). 'Cusp' doesn't require that the adjacent segments are straight line segments only (they can be curves as well). This is not a quirk - it is intended behaviour. It just takes the 2nd click to remove the handles. After the first click, they may still look like smooth nodes, because the handles are intact, and apparently mostly still in their original places. The first click converts them to cusp nodes with handles, and the 2nd click removes the handles, making them all straight segments.
If not, there's likely some explanation for what you see, even if it's not what I've guessed aboutīrynn wrote:Well I can comment on Quirk 1, at least. Could that be what you see? Or for clarity, just let us know if you're confirming the smooth status by the words "smooth node" on the status bar. It doesn't become a node, really, until you engage the Node tool. And you'll see another one at the end of an open path too, whenever the Bezier or Pen tool is engaged (and the path is selected). When you start a new path, there is a tiny open square, which is more of a handle than a node. If you're using the Bezier or Pen tool, and use snapping to make sure a new nodes resides directly on top of an existing node, and you're looking at the node itself to confirm the status as smooth, you might not be clear about what you see. When you say the nodes are reported as smooth, where are you looking to confirm it? If you're looking at the Status Bar, that would be a problem deserving of further investigation.
I'm not sure what to think about Quirk 2. With that enabled, even if you accidentally drag the mouse, it will only produce cusp or corner nodes I think it's the 3rd button from the left, that says something like "draw straight segments". With the Bezier or Pen tool engaged, look at the tool control bar. You can avoid having to convert them, and allow you perhaps to draw more quickly. Either I don't know what I'm talking about, or there's some hangover or ghost left behind after conversion? I wouldn't be surprised if it's the former. I haven't been able to chase this down yet, as the xml editor shows them all as 'c' for the nodetype. Quirk 2: while adding more lines to the drawing, using the snap-to-xxx features, heaps of my nodes report that they are smooth nodes, even though I have converted them all. Perhaps I don't understand what a smooth node is? The second click certainly finished the job. I don't know what the first click did, but it did something: the nodes then report themselves as cusp nodes, but they still show the behaviour of smooth nodes, even retaining their handles. Quirk 1: I had to click the toolbar button twice for it to work. Upon realising this, I selected my lines using the node tool, then selected all nodes (Ctrl+A), then clicked the 'Make selected nodes corner' button on the Node toolbar. I slightly dragged the mouse while clicking, thereby making the node a smooth node instead of a cusp node). I have just created a lot of lines using the Bezier tool, and unwittingly created a bunch of smooth nodes (i.e.
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