Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] writer+calc - anchor icons ...

Hi all,It's nice to see how fast this is going :)I don't understand much of the code, but LO uses 
those bitmaps and takes the areas which contain the actual icon, right? Wouldn't it be much more 
convenient to use single (SVG) images instead, or at least a vector-based set of handles?Thanks for 
your effortAlex ---- On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:54:35 +0100 Michael Meeks 
<michael.meeks@suse.com> wrote ----  Hi there,     Last split out mail: On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 
15:28 +0100, Astron wrote: > Lastly, there's the anchor image from Writer that is also in dire 
need > of replacement.     Oooh ! that could be pretty indeed :-) > What would be great: > 
* to know the location of these images in the git repository (sorry, I > really tried finding 
them, but there are too many icons)     Not certain, but I tried: cd sw/ ; git grep ANCHOR 
sw/source/ui/utlui/initui.src: BITMAP BMP_FRAME_ANCHOR { FILE = "anchor.bmp" ; }; 
sw/source/ui/utlui/initui.src: BITMAP BMP_FRAME_DRAG_ANCHOR { FILE = "danchor.bmp" ; };     Which 
looks promising, but in fact both of these images are 'missing icon' icons ;-) I'll add an easy 
hack to remove them & associated cruft when I can.     In fact the anchors are in the images 
attached - which have never been themed nicely (AFAIK). The second set have been 'improved' a bit, 
but its unclear if we use them. It took me about an hour to find the code (finally from sc/) - the 
handle object is a:     svx/source/svdraw/svdhdl.cxx     and we create in sc/ with: rHdl.AddHdl(new 
SdrHdl(aPos, bNegativePage ? HDL_ANCHOR_TR : HDL_ANCHOR));     In -theory- we switch between these 
two different images of anchor at the cursor blink frequency: // #98388# when anchor is used take 
upper left as reference point inside the handle     pRetval = new 
::sdr::overlay::OverlayAnimatedBitmapEx(rPos, aBmpEx1, aBmpEx2, nBlinkTime);     But I've 
(personally) never noticed that - perhaps this is because the images are so similar ? or possibly 
it is just broken - possibly OverlayAnimatedBitmapEx is having a bad year. > * to know what's 
possible with these images – most importantly: alpha > transparency?     So - it -looks- as if 
all that good stuff is possible. It is entirely possible / probable that we should rip those anchor 
icons out of their sets and enlarge / prettify / alpha-blend them.     It'd be great if you could 
experiment with using alpha / improving the look of those in your LibreOffice images*.zip ? > * 
if someone could remove the additional UI/code > * if someone would make them themeable (if they 
aren't > already/strictly optional)     So - they are already themable, but (I guess) no-one 
ever knew how to. There is also a theme-inside-a-theme of the      sal_Bool 
bIsFineHdl(pHdlList->IsFineHdl());     that switches between the two sets; from 'SetFineHdl' 
only called from:     void SdrMarkView::SetSolidMarkHdl(sal_Bool bOn)     Which seems to be tied to 
the 'SimpleHandles' config setting, and I guess the other images in that bitmap are in fact the 
handles we use to edit line shapes etc. The question is - do we really want the "simple handles" 
mode / configuration option anymore ? it seems redundant to me and the handles look even less 
pretty.     Thanks for caring about this detail !     ATB,         Michael. -- 
michael.meeks@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot