Feature: Intersect Lines Automatically Preference

[coldReactive]

A feature in flash is that you can intersect lines, and they become a whole object. not in inkscape, intersecting lines still treats the lines as separate lines.

Should make as such:

1. Intersect Lines Makes a whole object
2. Intersection of Two Lines Will Be a Node.

I love flash, but mainly used it to color, I'd love this feature in inkscape so I'd never have to buy flash again. Also please look at another feature request submitted by Iyeru (my old account) that I just replied to for clarification on what I meant for bending lines, see bug #422943

See Comment #3 below to see a better description on why this description above was made.

[coldReactive (coldreactive)]

Furthermore, I'd like to suggest a sub-feature of this:

Make new lines able to connect to nodes on other objects/lines by dragging the handles/nodes to other nodes on the other lines.

Call it "Node Snapping."

[coldReactive (coldreactive)]

Seems you already have node snapping, but you can't join the nodes.

[coldReactive (coldreactive)]

I see, so this is really a complicated way of doing this. I need to think of a new bug name for this.

CRTL+K Joins the paths together, then with them joined, highlight the two nodes while they are snapped, then press the join nodes button on the node tool toolbar.

This should be much simpler than it is now.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Have you tried to draw the bezier curves / lines with the <Shift> key pressed (works with the pen/freehand tool as well with the pencil/bezier tool)? This will add new paths as subpaths to the selected path (thus you don't need to manually combine the paths later).

«If you start drawing outside the end marks of the selected path then, unless Shift was pressed, that path is deselected and you are drawing a new path (not a new subpath of the selected path as before). To add to the selected path, you have to start drawing either from one of its end marks to continue it, or in arbitrary place but with Shift pressed to create a new unconnected subpath.»
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.42#Tools_improvements>