On Wednesday 08 December 2004 04:17, Austin Donnelly wrote: > > I think I was probably the last person to do any major work on the > scissors tool, and that was in 1999 to port it to the (then new) > tile-based world. > > The code when I took it on was a "software Vietnam"; a complete > mess. I had to read the SIGGRAPH paper it was attempting to > implement before I could fix it, and believe me it left my hands > much cleaner than I got it! > > There are two areas where it could do with improvement: > - it doesn't handle tile-boundaries (it treats them as edges) hmm..this explains the major complaint I had about it. Sorry again to all who make use of the tool. > - the point editing interface sucks; I merely made the existing > one work but it might be interesting to see if it could use the > same code from the Path tool (that was always the plan) It may not be fine, but it works. As stated in other e-mail, it could benefit from undo. The tile boundary == edge thing is not good. > Austin > > Regards, Joao
