[Clipart] Re: Clip Art Browser

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:51 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:06 -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote:
> >         6.) When doing a search, the app goes non-responsive for long
> >         periods of 
> >         time which is bad IMO.
> >
> > Definitely agree; this is an Inkscape issue, and after looking through
> > the extensions code a bit, I suspect its a non-trivial fix.  You could
> > partially fix this by having the subprocess that Inkscape spawns for
> > the extension spawn the real extension process and then return
> > immediately, giving Inkscape back the unaltered document.  You could
> > then insert clip art by dragging and dropping, but not by selecting an
> > image.  The issue is that Inkscape effects extensions work by writing
> > the current document to the extensions's standard input, waiting
> > (freezing), then reading the modified document on standard input.  To
> > keep it responsive during the waiting period, you'd have to spawn
> > another thread that would poll the extension continuously.  This could
> > be done by modifications to extension/implementation/script.cpp, but I
> > haven't attempted this yet.
> 
> Well, this isn't really the way that effects are meant to be used.
> You're asking for a pallet, which honestly isn't available.  In order to
> do multithreaded, we can't assume that anyone has a golden version of
> the document anymore.  Palettes are on the roadmap, but until the DOM is
> available, I'm afraid that they are impractical.  We could make the GUI
> refresh, but would have to force you to be unable to edit the document
> (which makes the GUI refreshing not that useful).

What is the best way to solve this then Ted? Wait? Or how can Greg push
this through for his project?

Jon


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