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This basically a personal wishlist or backlog written by Mr. Tschager:
Link to the original source https://sourceforge.net/p/patterncreator/tickets/198/

• Currently "Remove isolated vertices" removes them all. I'd like to see only removed the isolated vertices in a selection. So:

• a) No selected vertices - the command removes them all

• b) Selected vertices - the command removes only the isolated vertices among the selection

• As a user I wish my settings for the show/hidden settings for the background and view floating window are saved permanently in order to not having to turn it on/off every time I start the prog

• As a user I'd like to hide/unhide primitives

• As a user I'd like select multiple primitives (say, disc+ndis) for copy'n'paste

• As a user I wish I had not to create and merge a vertex with vertices of imported .dat files in order to create a triangle where imported and new vertices are the basic structure for my pattern.

• As a user I'd like that vertices of templates behave like normal vertices when it comes down to use them as waypoint for my triangles (basically speaking templates currently behave like imported .dats

• As a user I'd like to have copy/paste icons also for the x,y lines only in the Vertex-Data box in order to quickly copy just to the x box of the newly selected vertex

• Drawing a curve, it would be useful if I could define the number of vertices right from the start and change the number also once the end point is set. This is most true in those cases where you draw more sections and the number of vertices gets stored in between. This is even more annoying when you finish with say 2 or 3 vertices only and start a new curve - you simply lack accuracy

• As a user I wish I could set the snap via toolbar buttons instead of the cryptic (1/1000 LDU). At least for 1, 10, 100, 1000.

• As a user I wish the end point would be set when creating a spline after aborting the last section (where the first point is identical with the last point of the previous section).

• Finally, as a user I wish I could manipulate help lines

• As a user I'd like to able to also rotate a background image in case it is not in balance.

• ...and be able to scale differently x and y (if photograph was done at a slight angle).

• As a user I'd like to have a slider for the opacity of the colors, rather than just four values to chose from.

• As a user I'd like to have also an opacity slider for the background image.

• As a user I'd like to have LDPE's "Unify triangles into quads" button.

• As a user I'd like to rotate a selection of vertices with the last selected vertex as rotation point.

• As a user I'd like to align vertices on the left/right/middle/top/bottom/center as I do in PS or IL.

• As a user I'd like to copy-convert say a disc into a ndis (sure I can do it with the matrix but I'd like to have a one-click-feature). I need this mainly to create a disk with the tools I have and then wrap a ndis with the same characteristics around.

• As a user I'd like to have icons for Undo and Redo

• As a user I'd like to have the current drop-down menu for the modes separated into three distinct icons: Vertices/Triangles/Prims

• As a user I'd like to have LDPE's distance meter and protractor

• As a user I wish LDPC had a better memory management. Loading a 2,6 MB jpg the progs seams to have a some sort of hickup and slows down notably. When I hide the background pic everything is back to normal. Therefore it must be the filesize.

• As a user I wish the file's name I'm working on shows up along the title in the very top bar.

• As a user I'd like to have an auto-filler, which fills the room between selected vertices with triangles (trying to avoid long, small triangles as much as possible).

• Layers (with a management as in PS) for background, the pattern itself and help lines, triangles, curves, cylinders you need for construction but not in the actual pattern, with the chance to blend them out/in with a mouse click once you don't need it any more. Current I color them differently and move them to the border but it's not ideal 'cos selection with CTRL is a pain when they overlay.

• 1-16tang.dat
• 1-8tang.dat
• 1-4tang.dat
• 48\1-16tang.dat
• 48\1-8tang.dat

P. Hurbain wrote:

If I try to extend a selection using ctrl + marquee drag, already selected elements covered by the new marquee get deselected. It would be much more useful if ctrl + marquee only add to selection

Hi Nils,

I just cloned your project from scratch and tried to build it inside Visual Studio 2013
(both Debug and Release build have this problem).

When opening the project and hitting build, I get
------ Build started: Project: LDPatternCreator, Configuration: Release Any CPU ------ D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\Resources.resx(246,5): error MSB3103: Invalid Resx file. Could not find file 'D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\bin\Release\lang\lang_de_DE.csv'. Line 246, position 5. ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
The file is present in a different folder,
LDPatternCreator\ReleaseFiles\lang
, but there seems to be a custom build step missing which copies these files over.

The problem occurred for me with commit fab2a18

When trying to find the cause of the problem, I double clicked
"My Project". Then the screen shown in the screenshot opens,
and another 3 error messages are issued:
Error 2 Invalid Resx file. Could not find file 'D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\bin\Release\lang\lang_de_DE.csv'. Line 246, position 5. D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\Resources.resx 246 5 LDPatternCreator Error 3 Resource 'lang_de_DE' could not be loaded because the file to which it is linked could not be found: D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\..\bin\Release\lang\lang_de_DE.csv. D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\Resources.resx 0 0 Error 4 Resource 'lang_en_GB' could not be loaded because the file to which it is linked could not be found: D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\..\bin\Release\lang\lang_en_GB.csv. D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\Resources.resx 0 0 Error 5 Resource 'lang_fr_FR' could not be loaded because the file to which it is linked could not be found: D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\..\bin\Release\lang\lang_fr_FR.csv. D:\Projects\LDPatternCreator\LDPatternCreator\My Project\Resources.resx 0 0

Mikkel Bech Jensen wrote:

Please, do not remove "Fast Triangulation II"-deactivation as that feature can be quite annoying at times. It's still brilliant, but some times it is just in the way.
I don't know about the original "Fast Triangulation" feature. I don't think there is a reason to disable it as it makes the authoring process much easier, but it seems nice to have the option?

Ok, I will keep "Fast Triangulation II".
I will rename it to a proper description about what it really does:

"Create new vertices while adding triangles
(Fast Triangulation II)"

Philo wrote:

An idea for a future version: automatic creation of flat stickers. LDPC would take the user drawn pattern, place it at y=-.25, create a sticker rim with quads and triangulate the back face.

Hi Nils,

I'm using LD Pattern Creator for modelling stickers. I am encountering what appears to be an issue with scaling images.

I start by using the menu item "File/Load Template/Create a sticker" and specify then dimensions of the sticker in LDUs. On closing the dialog window, an orange box is then displayed with the expected sticker dimensions.

If I then use the menu item "File/Load Background Image", while it opens the "Image-Preferences" dialog window, it also immediately opens the "Load image:" dialog window used to select the background image file. The value for the field "Scale" within the "Image-Preferences" dialog window has a default value of 1.000. Once the file name is selected and the "Load image:" dialog is closed, the "Image-Preferences" dialog window is automatically closed and the image is loaded at 1% of its actual size.

If the menu item "View/Image-Preferences" is used to load an image, I can firstly set the value for the field "Scale" to 100.0 and then select the file name. Using this menu item, at least allows me to load the image with the expected size.

Can the "Scale" factor be defaulted to 100.0% so that when a background image is loaded, it loads to it's expected size?

Regards,

David

It would be an entry like:

0 !KEYWORDS Set 6267

The set number is now required. I have to check how multiple sets can be listed.
Is it 0 !KEYWORDS Set 6267, Set 6265 (most likely)
or 0 !KEYWORDS Set 6267, 6265.

Dear Mr. Schmidt,

My name is Anupama Nedungadi and I am a Master’s student at the University of Geneva. For my thesis, I am looking at internationalization and localization practices in open source image editors, meaning how and why (or why not) the software has been translated into another language.
I have curated a list of image editors, graphic editors and the likes hosted on SourceForge, GitHub and GitLab, and this list includes your software LDPatternCreator.

I am contacting you to ask for your participation in a survey. This is a key element of my Master’s thesis. I am aware of the fact that we don't know each other and that you don't owe me anything, but I am really dependent on your help since my topic is quite niche. I also believe we should shine a spotlight on open source software and its translation in particular, as little research has been done in this area recently.

The survey will be open until the 16th of June 2021, and it should only take you around 10 minutes as most questions are multiple choice. Your answers will be anonymous.

https://formulaire.unige.ch/outils/limesurveyfac/traduction-interpretation/index.php/697247?lang=en

Again, thank you for taking the time to read this email and helping a slightly stressed student out!

Best regards,
Anupama Nedungadi

Willy wrote:

Bug of the day:

• Select "Add Vertex [A]"
• Set a vertex. Watch out for the small coordination windows in the bottom right-hand corner
• Select "Add Primitive [F7]... Create a Spline..."
• Click to add the spline starting point
• Click to set the first direction of the spline
• Click to add the next point
• Click to set the next direction
• You CANNOT click to apply the segment count 'cos the "Vertex-Data" is still there hiding the segment count window underneath.

Workaround:

• Make sure the "Add Vertex [A]" button is not pressed before creating a spline.

P. Hurbain wrote:

In triangle creation mode, if you make a marquee to select a vertex and miss this one, a new vertex is created. It would be better that nothing happened if there is no vertex in marquee area.