usability fix for krita; stroke from outside the canvas

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 13 February 2009, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had some brainstorming here how to solve a problem that Krita is
> especially hit by.
> As you might know since the new krita canvas classes and the
> canvasController we lost the ability to start a stroke outside of the
> actual painting and drag the pointer into the canvas to make it still
> paint.
> KOffice 1.6 had it, so its a regression.
>
> I created a patch and it seems to work mostly OK for me for flake tools
> (the caligraphy tool works good with it). So I think the concept is sound.
>
> For some reason the krita tools don't have any effect with it, and I don't
> have time to look into that right now.
>
> Would a good soul here be able to take a look?
> Find attached the patch;

Hm... We're not there. Some tools seem to throw the system into an infinite 
loop on canvas entry, and the flake freehand tool only starts about twenty 
pixels from inside the document edge. I'll do some more testing today.

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