[PythonCAD] newb - closed polyline

[José Antonio Martín Prieto]

I think that Carl is right. When you're drawing a polyline, the boxes
that should appear around the endpoints does not appear until you
finish the polyline. So I think there is no way to make a closed
polyline.

Jose.

On 5/10/07, Carl Trachte <ctrachte at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got the latest source from the subversion repository and I'm using it
> with Python 2.4 in Cygwin.
>
> What I can do is draw an open polyline, then draw a segment that snaps to
> the two polyline endpoints (the snap works as you, Art, described, and
> colors the snapped point location box a different color than the other
> points - in my case it's default blue versus default yellow).
>
> What I haven't yet figured out is how to make the segment part of the
> polyline.
>
> Thancad (a Tkinter based Python CAD app) was actually designed for this sort
> of thing.  I corresponded with its author briefly.  It's not a bad tool for
> what I'm doing, but development on it has, as far as I know, stopped back in
> 2004.
>
> Is this the sort of thing worth trying to incorporate into PythonCAD, or is
> PythonCAD's audience less of a GIS crowd, and more of a circuit board
> drawing group?
>
> Thanks for suffering more questions.
>
>  Carl T.
>
>
> On 5/7/07, Carl Trachte <ctrachte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, again, Art.  I'll get to work.
> >
> > I'm trying to get pythoncad set up under Cygwin.  If I have any luck with
> that, I'll probably have more questions.
> >
> > For now, the BSD port, although a bit dated, at least gives me a working
> app that I can get started on.
> >
> > Carl T.
> >
> >
> > On 5/7/07, Art Haas < ahaas at airmail.net> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:51:56PM -0700, Carl Trachte wrote:
> > >
> > > You wrote earlier that you are using the R28 release. That release is
> > > quite old and a number of bugs have been fixed, plus various
> > > improvements to the program have been added. I'm not familiar
> > > with the BSD ports system to know if a newer releases is available, but
> > > if so I'd try to use it. If you don't mind pulling the code straight
> > > from the public Subversion repo that would be an even better choice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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