Node Snapping Issue

[PixelPest]

15 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

I think the current implementation is intentional so that the user does not inadvertently move the guides when drawing lines.

I didn´t say anything against it - what baffles me that the Node-tool don´t offer any ability to move a guide (like Inkscape eg.) unless I´m dragging a new one.

[PixelPest]

12 minutes ago, Hangman said:

ame here... take them out of the group and snapping works, place them in a group or merge the lines and snapping no longer works... it has to be a bug in that case...

I can´t reproduce this behavior. Crude example:

[Hangman]

@PixelPest Sorry, I was agreeing with you on that point...

It would also be helpful to be able to drag new guides when Lock Guides is selected so they are only locked once positioned and the mouse released. Currently with Lock Guides on you can no longer add new guides. What you ideally want is for guides to only be locked on the canvas but with the ability to still add new guides, so effectively Lock Guides becomes a toggle function...

[Pšenda]

13 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

I can´t reproduce this behavior

It is about snapping "Guides".

19 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

the Node-tool don´t offer any ability to move a guide

Move Guides via Ruler bar.

P.S. Unlike Move Tool, it also snapped to Merge curves 🙂 Edited October 4, 2021 by Pšenda

[PixelPest]

Cool (pretty sure I tried that in the past and totally forget about it - no coffee can help here) - snapping to selected objects - so it´s working in the end with every tool currently selected but snapping works just with Node-tool inside compound paths from my experience.

[Hangman]

14 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Move Guides via Ruler bar.

Interesting, hadn't considered this when Node tool is selected...

[Hangman]

7 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

so it´s working in the end with every tool currently selected but snapping works just with Node-tool inside compound paths from my experience.

Which is different behaviour from 1.7.3 where snapping also worked with the Move tool inside compound paths as well and had the added benefit of not needing to use the ruler to move guides...

[catlover]

If I may be so bold as to put in my 2 cents worth : The adding/moving/snapping of guides through various tools has been an issue for a long, long time.

It was at one point fixed, e.g. you could add & move guides with various tools and then, after placing  move them again with the move/node tool,
on the fly, so to speak while from then on snapping was no issue at all either.

At one point after an update (can't remember which version,sorry) this was suddenly no longer possible and the perfect snapping went out the window as well.
Even though various posts mentioned this deterioration in functionality, it was never fixed.
Could it be that someone initially fixed the issue and after that, when some work was needed on that particular piece of code, a different person was appointed to the task and "fixed" it again, without knowing what had been done before.
Not saying this is what happened, but I can't imagine that it was deliberately "unfixed".
C.L.
 

 

[PixelPest]

Fixed to death. Yikes!

[Pšenda]

4 hours ago, Hangman said:

Interesting, hadn't considered this when Node tool is selected...

It is a logical and, in general, expected way of controlling the Guides who are added via the Ruler bar. It's just a pity (and it's also a bug in the way of control) that when the mouse hovers over the Guide, the cursor does not change (it does not change until you drag the Guide).