Did my daily peruse of Sourceforge and saw this potential gem and just was hoping.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/knotter/

In an interesting bit of synchronicity Knotter is the subject of a short article on Libre Graphics World today: http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entr ... design-app which also mentions that Inkscape is capable of celtic knots as well.

Kevin

Thanks for sharing the article link Kevin. Looks like they are planning to add more features to it too so maybe it's a wait a little while then request the compile. lol

Didn't know about the feature in Inkscape but still looks like more work then a lazy filter guy like me would want to persue.

Hello,
I'm the developer of knotter.

I'm not so sure about Windows build environment but the only dependency knotter has is Qt.
( You can get Qt from http://qt-project.org/downloads )
If you install Qt creator you may be able to compile it from there.

Knotter is still under heavy development, new features will come in the near future and it may contain some bugs.
Many cool features have already been added since the post on Libre Graphics World .
If you use early releases and report bugs or provide me with feedback you'll be helping knotter become a better program

If you have any question or want to contact me you can use the forum on sourceforge ( https://sourceforge.net/p/knotter/discussion/devel/ ) or email me ( email address is provided in knotter sources ).

--Mattia

Missed your post Mattia. Lots of improvements even since your post (just visted Sourceforge and saw another update). Not really a coder; still hoping someone here is w.r.t. Windows. Guess I can always power up my Ubuntu to get it to work too thanks to others here.

Great work mbasagli !
I am not programmer - treat I tasted.
The result of compilation (0.5.6) several mistakes have:
- could not resolve property : radialGradient3709;
- lack of several icons (This is easily replenished);
- the mistake of record to *.png and *. jpg
It unfortunately - lack me knowledge it how was can was repair this.
Maybe with next newer version - compilation will be successful ....

For win i tried but i could not install the Qt SDK, always my computer froze before the end of the installation.

I may try to install only the Qt creator but was discouraged ( the suggestion was to install using the Qt SDK, that is a gigantic download (1.8GB ) and as i said for some reason totally froze my computer when at 90% of installation process
(and yes really frozen not a change in 3 hours)

I had the impression that remain frozen for a pop out message to click away, maybe a additional license to accept, but the problem is that the message is not displayed (except as a sort of vague ghost, were only the edges are almost visible) so can't be clicked away

QT Installation requires a lot of free space on the C drive (from 1 to 8 GB by installing option) - regardless of the target location to another drive (installation goes through the temporary directory).

...and to strictly avoid to use any other programs (including a text editor, do not even think to browse internet or a music player ) for all the hours required to install... and to close also all the programs that may run unseen in the background

Or the computer will get frozen forever and install will fail (it did 3 times in a row, the last because i get a call from skype that i forgot to kill before install... )

i still have 100GB free so there is space, but install seems really a pain

@MareroQ

Right now I'm using freedesktop standard icons names and a few custom icons.
Freedesktop stuff will work only with KDE, GNOME and alike.
I may include some icon package like tango or oxygen in the future.

I'm not using gradients anywhere in my program, so the error regarding radialGradient3709 may be a Qt internal,
Is it a compile time error or a run-time warning?

What about the jpg and png? I haven't tested that much but it should work, what's wrong with it?

@PhotoComix
I can't help you much, did you try the online or offline SDK installer? If one fails try the other.
Or you can try to download just the libraries and Qt creator.
The tools required to build Knotter (besides a C++ build environment) are: Qt libraries, qmake, uic, moc.


[edit]
I've added most non-standard icons as custom images and a configuration option to use a fallback theme (this is available from git).

By the way, does configure.sh work on Windows? Does it require Cygwin?

This is my first attempt - I lack the knowledge and experience.
For *.svg and *.bmp files - everything works
With *.png and *.jpg - this one mistake.
For other problems - may be valid version of QT-What're using?

I've tested Knotter with Qt 4.8 and Qt 4.7.

The processing of exporting as image is done by Qt so I doubt I can fix it.
If you give me the knot file and the exported images I can try to see what's wrong with them.

Thanks for the icons.
Configure.sh file did not change (suggestion - how?)
Cygwin (and Oxygen) have not yet installed (that you think is needed?).
I'm sorry (probably ridiculous) questions amateur QT.

configure.sh is a Unix shell script that performs some tasks that Qt tools can't do properly.
I think Windows requires Cygwin to have a shell interpreter.

How did you compile Knotter on Windows? To get the full set of icons you need to run (from a shell)

or (should not require a shell)

or add the line

somewhere at the beginning of knotter.pro

Maybe there is something native but i will not trust it much

Anyway i have MinGW/MSYS because was required to build gimp (i tried once ) so a decent shell interpreter should be available

But i am a bit busy on something else now so i am not sure i can find the time to try

Files for XP32bit (excluding the recent guidelines) containing two errors - export as png and jpg sent to your address (zip file = 9 Mb - in this forum, you can post only 5 Mb).
No one icon: Configure grid ....
The file is so large because it contains dll QT (to run on different machines).

edit ps.
Despite the problems with png am very happy with version 0.5.6 for Windows.
Once again, thank you very much.
With the latest version of git
I have a problem:

Lylejk - that is dedication for you (you can handle errors....)

Not sure where the file is at MareroQ, but congrats on getting it to work for Windows. Have not received an email if you have sent it that way. Got a link per chance?

me too !!