Re: General Purpose Python Scripting for Inkscape.

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the enthusiasm, I have to highlight some important points:

1. I started this as a hack initially to control some drawing constraints,
then it grows to something bigger.
2. I used the standard Inkscape extension mechanism. So this "plugin" is a
simple python extension.
3. I am not an Autocad user, so I can't compare with Autocad's lisp macro
system.
4. What you get: In your script you can manipulate the current svg
document. You can do whatever you want with it.
5. I have coded a general purpose Path object wrapper to create and modify
paths in an OOP fashion.
6. The code of this extension is simple, not rocket science ;)
7. I am on travel, but next week I will push it to gitlab.
8. There is a lot of room for improvement.
9. Two more screenshots attached ;)

Cheers,
Frank.



On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 4:02 AM C R <[email protected]> wrote:

> Really exciting news! Thanks for your work!
>
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, 03:27 , <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Frank Martínez,
>>
>> This work looks really exciting. I'd love to get you in touch with
>> Thomas Wiesner who has done a similar work in progress merge request:
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/417
>>
>> This functionality is similar, although not exactly the same. I believe
>> though that issues around how python accesses the internal svg document
>> are going to be the same.
>>
>> The landing plan for such a feature would have to be post 1.0, so if
>> you were able to produce a branch on GitLab, then we would review it
>> but only want to merge it in after the 1.0 release is out the door.
>>
>> You can also join us at https://chat.inkscape.org to talk more to other
>> developers as well as sending your message to the inkscape-devel
>> mailing list.
>>
>> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>>
>> On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 20:42 -0500, Frank Martínez wrote:
>> > Hi Guys,
>> >
>> > Inkscape is amazing!, I am a professional software developer, I have
>> > been working in an embedded scripting plugin for Inkscape, I started
>> > doing it for my own purposes (designing electric guitars and CNC
>> > parts) And now I have complete support for python scripting inside
>> > inkscape. I will release the code as open source in Github or Gitlab
>> > as soon as I can write some documentation. The attached screenshot
>> > shows how it looks. The plugin has its own code editor with syntax
>> > highlight, compilation check, and run. It uses only python and gtk3,
>> > my working environment is Linux Mint, I am not sure if it will work
>> > out of the box in windows or mac yet, but i  am pretty sure it will
>> > run in all platforms eventually soon.
>> >
>> > The scripting environment gives full access to the svg document, xml
>> > manipulation and also Object Oriented wrappers (mainly for path
>> > creation and manipulation). Full python environment is also
>> > available. The scripting code is stored inside the document (<script>
>> > tags) and you can import external libraries too of course.
>> >
>> > I hope some contributions will make the project better with time.
>> > This is not a macro system, you can not record actions or invoke GUI
>> > actions, you can just write scripts inside the document and
>> > manipulate the document itself, move, transform, change attributes,
>> > create objects etc.. from python scripts.
>> >
>> > All your feedback will be welcome and I will be very pleased if the
>> > project result useful for the community.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Frank.
>> >
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