negative shift for Tile Clones

[Norbert Nemec]

Tile clone shift should work for values less than -100%
as well. There are several uses where it may come in
handy and no obvious reason why it should be prohibited.

[Hystrix (hystrix-)]

It allows negtive values in Inkscape 0.45.1, built Mar 21 2007

[Florent Becker (florent-becker-ens-lyon)]

Negative values should reach further than -100%; in 0.45.1 and svn as of feb 7 2007, they don't. Here is a patch, which also sets the max absolute value to 10000%, as 1000 can be puny at times (large tilings of small objects).

[Tom Davidson (tjd-mit)]

Thanks for the patch! I'll milestone this so that it will get reviewed by one of the devs for inclusion.

(Facundo--the request is for negative values less than -100%, not just negative values. In current SVN rev 17256, this limit is still in place)

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This looks like a good feature, although we'd need to test it to ensure expanding the bounds can't lead to out of bounds errors anywhere. It's a bit too late in the release cycle for it, so I'm dropping the milestone.

[Florent Becker (florent-becker-ens-lyon)]

Is there a hope to see this patch in 0.46.1, anything I can do to help including it ? I've been testing it for a while, and I haven't experienced any problems. It really is a feature i've been missing, and I don't want to wait until 0.47.

[bbyak (buliabyak)]

Thanks for the patch, committed to svn trunk

I'm not too happy about increasing these limits indiscriminately - it makes it too easy to get a weird result accidentally, and harder to reset the values. Perhaps we need to add some way to quickly reset the values to 0, 100, and -100. One approach is to use the same spinbutton right-click menu as in the controls bar, with entries for these common values.

[bbyak (buliabyak)]

Bryce: I approve this patch for 0.46.1, it's not critical but safe

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

It's not necessary to assign 0.46.x bugs to me - just milestone them or target them to 0.46.1 and I'll catch them when I'm doing release works.

[Florent Becker (florent-becker-ens-lyon)]

As for increasing the limits, is it possible to have the spinbutton be limited to say [-1000,1000], and allow arbitrary values to be entered manually ?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Fixed in SVN head; sounds like we won't be doing a 0.46.1 after all so no need for this to still be open.