These lines and shapes become objects you can copy and paste, move around, shape, layer and do all sorts of things to make them look how you want, but in the end you are just defining lines and shapes. Shapes are just lines that connect together to form a boundary (so really you are just drawing lines). You can make it pretty simple and have some good looking results. I'm about to give a bunch of information that may not even be helpful, but its what I use all the time when drawing stuff, but first (before you get scared) lets have an overview. That faded as the programming got complex, but I have since used inkscape for my masters thesis diagrams, work documents, and even for sketching up layouts for remodeling my kitchen. I drew some 30 svg drawings in inkscape of 'stompboxes' for the various rakarrack effects and wrote the qsvgwidget library thing that I mentioned before. Not long after I read the rakarrack team was looking for new GUIs so I volunteered that I didn't know what I was doing, but I would try anyway. I also really liked the idea of scalable drawings rather than pixmaps, so I stumbled upon inkscape. I started with GIMP, but I couldn't really draw very well with it.

I think I originally found inkscape when trying to draw a cover for my bands forthcoming album (which has been forthcoming for several years). I'm not qualified to give a real inkscape tutorial so you should probably stop reading right now, but just in case I can help someone out there make a cool GUI I'll press onward. So basically all my skills are honed to this purpose. Perhaps you are, but I wasn't until I started trying to draw GUIs in it. Something like that.Īnyway the biggest assumption I made is that you are proficient in inkscape. So I got all excited and posted that last article about a lot of the technical stuff to make a GUI in Inkscape, but after posting it I realized it makes quite a few assumptions, so I'm going to add a few follow on posts, some of which (mostly this one) should have been written first.

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