[scribus-dev] Couple of questions

[Elvis Stansvik]

2011/8/1 Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com>:
> Good morning all,
>
> Adding snap to guides and have a couple of questions:
>
> 1) I can't see them! :) For some reason, neither grids nor guides are
> visible for me, even with "Show Grid" and "Show Guides" enabled.
> Anyone else having this problem?
>
> 2) I noticed that ScribusDoc::ApplyGuides(double *, double*) is not
> exact, but will bring the passed in coordinates "very close" to the
> guide. This is what resulted in e.g. #8099. That one was fixed by
> rounding after the call to ApplyGuides(...) (see
> LineMove::AdjustBounds(...) in canvasgesture_linemove.cpp). Should I
> do the same? At the moment I have the same problem as in that bug
> report; there's a little "wiggle room" when snapping to guides.
> Rounding feels like an improper fix though. Shouldn't ApplyGuides(...)
> do this for me?

Actually, I'm now convinced this is not a fix at all.

Rounding will simply put it at the closest integer, which is obviously
wrong: Just try placing a single guide in a document, a line end point
will now snap to two locations, separated by 1 pt.

So.. what's the proper fix? :)

Elvis