Hi dear scripters, here is an idea I'm thinking from long ago. Maybe it's not too hard to write and some of you (all fantastic awesome scripters ) could implement it.
Many times I have defined the line width of a draw, and clients ask me to reduce or increase the width of the whole character. With width tool it's not hard to do, except by a detail: when you modify all points at once, width tool modifies even the ones which have zero as value to hide or end the line on some place.
It would be awesomely useful to have a checkbox like "exclude points with 0 width".
After some fiddling I got it to work. Now I just have to add the check box so it's an option. It's the chicken and the egg. If your width tool only changes points with a width you obviously MUST have the option to change a width of a point without one. obviously. It got a bit confusing for me for a few seconds. I wasn't able to change width on ANY point with out a width AT ALL.
Yes it can be done. I made a mistake though. I thought selgin wanted to NOT change the width of points that had NO width. What he wants is to not change the width of points with a 0 point width.
You have a stroke shape and you want tapered ends for example. You set the point width to 0 to make a tapered or thin stroke at one points. Now you want to adjust the points of the whole thing but you DON'T want to change the width of a zero width point.
I have to go back and change it. It will be easier for this change though I think.
Make sure you back up the original tool somewhere just in case. I didn't change the name of this one. It works pretty well. It should work exactly the same as the original tool if you leave the ignore 0 width points unchecked.
It has a small drawback. If you check the ignore 0 width points and drag the tool "too far" and make the point 0 then you have to uncheck the box before you can change the point line widths again. If ANY of the points are NOT set with a point linewidth and you have the box checked, those points default to 0 and then the point linewidth can't be changed until you uncheck the box.
Imago wrote:It's possible to add it changing it's file name?
The changes are very simple and the tool works EXACTLY the same if you never check the ignore 0 width points check box. There's no need for a completely different tool for this.
) could implement it.
