Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Some issues related to the text tool

[vudem a. <aru...@gm...>]

About being able to select the text long long time after the text has
been entered.  We could save the data in the list where information about the
text is present. Now when open is used and the corresponding drawing
along with the list informations gets loaded. Thus it can be edited.
but with support for system dialogs coming up and renaming of files
being a possibility this will not be good enough. Is there someway in
which we ca handle this problem. The file naming convention could be
kept simple like all the files related to xxx.png could be
xxx-lyyy.png where yyy would be the layer number. Can we work around
this so that the same filename cannot be used in a different
directory. All the other files could b e saved in the current tuxpaint
saving directory except the whole drawing.

I am also thinking of ways in which we change the background image
when text is selected. The problem that we face here is as follows:
Suppose the text is entered, and smudge is applied in the area of the
text. Do we go back to the state where the text as well as the
background image are desmudged and the text displayed or do we keep
the background smudged, while only the text is displayed, desmudged.
Currently I am thinking of implementing it by applying it(perhaps all
the magic tools) separately for the text layer and the background
image, so that that when the text is selected, the magic applied
below it can remain as they were before. Do we apply magic tools to
each of the layers, text and drawing separately?

Another issue I was thinking was about drawing above the text. How do
we handle that situation. Suppose the text is partially covered and a
brush is used to draw an top of the text. We will now have to even
support and keep information about multiple layers of drawing on top
of the text layers. I do not know if this will involve a large scale
re-engineering of the tuxpaint code. What do you think about it?

Regards,
Arunodai