More user stories (Tschager's Backlog)

[nilsschmidt1337]

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.