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Hi kuser, For the first request there is a solution: on the "Misc" page in the Setup dialog, check the "Select all hierarchy levels" checkbox in the "On Cell Change" group. I admit it's somewhat hidden .. For the seco…
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Hi, Sorry for not answering that thread earlier - I was not looking into that forum after some days of inactivity ... Regarding the build issues on 32bit: some gcc versions need a lot of memory to build dbShapes.cc. In my experience, 1G RAM should…
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Hi Till, I have created a Ruby script that emulates the functionality (requires version 0.18 at least). It registers a new function "Overlaps To Void" in the "Edit/Selection" menu. It works on the selection (not the whole layer…
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Hi Till, I had the feeling that the shapewise booleans are not well documented and they would need some detailed explanation. Sorry for assuming that you have not tried them. I guess I now understand better what you need. I could offer a solution …
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Hi Till, you are right, that is a problem currently. With binary formats it was easy to detect the format by analyzing the first few bytes. With text formats a more elaborate method is required. I could treat every unknown and ASCII-like format as…
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Hi Till, if I understand you correctly, the functionality you look for is already there. It is not necessary to use two separate layers and the whole-layer booleans to get the effect. You can draw two or more shapes on the same layer: a larger hul…
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Hi Mikel, there are a lot of ways to write boolean functions. The most important application probably is to create new layers from existing ones, similar to what the menu functions do. This is an example piece of code that performs a boolean betwe…
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That particular problem can occur on system with a german locale. It will be fixed in the next release 0.18.1. A quick workaround is to set the locale to "C", i.e. on the shell command line: export LANG=C Matthias