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Awesome! Definitely using this to make icons. Way handy to have something simple and online, and not have to fire up Inkscape or Illustrator.

Issues I saw: Ctrl-click to add point doesn't work well on OSX, where ctrl-click doubles as right-click and brings up a context menu.

After ctrl-click and seeing the context menu, it gets stuck in add-point mode until I tap ctrl again.

Maybe it would be easiest to add-point when you click in the background, and select-point when you click on a point?

Having an insert-point function would be really handy. Maybe it would be easiest to make it so that add-point checks the selected point before adding, and joins the selected point to the new point.

Might be nice to allow the point type options on the first point, in the case where you close the path? I don't know SVG paths well enough to know if it supports that natively, but if the only way to close a path is with a straight line, it limits the usefulness of having a close path option, yes?




Thanks! Your suggestions are very relevant. The point insertion function is planned for the next update, as well as the ability to change the path code.

The close path function is natively present in SVG. The code ends with the command Z when you want to close the path. The first point is declared using the command M (Move To), so if you want to end the path with a curve, you just have to close it manually with an actual point. :)


Oh, and let the general options be collapsible, or at the bottom of the pane. Those are less often used than the point options.




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