editable x/y coordinate fields in Node controls bar

Can't the "align and distribute" dialog be used not only for
shape but for node/"spline guide" too ?

** taken from jabber chatroom logs on 22nd of april 2004 ***

 node is selected > text field becomes active displaying
xy cords > properties modified > node moved >

(11:33:19) bbyak: my idea is this: when more than one node
selected, the field is blank, but still editable; you can
enter any value into it, and when you do, all selected nodes
are aligned at this coordinate
(11:33:38) bbyak: i.e. if you enter x=5, selected nodes are
aligned at this x, y remains unchanged
(11:34:06) bbyak: and when all selected nodes have the same
value of one of the coords, it _is_ displayed in the field
(11:34:20) bbyak: gives you a wat to align nodes
(11:34:52) bbyak: a way
(11:35:16) BrisGeek: hey thats a great idea bbyak. and the
perfect way to align selected nodes to the one dimension
(11:35:30) bbyak: when one node is selected, of course both
coords are displayed, and work as expected to move it
(11:35:51) bbyak: all that remains is to code it

Align nodes via Align dialog works now.

As an extension of this, for 2 selected nodes the distance
between them and the angle should be displayed and be
editable via entry fields.

Originator: NO

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1550237&group_id=93438&atid=604309

was closed as a duplicate of this

Originator: NO

I'd also be very interested in this feature.

Originator: NO

I'd also be very interested in this feature. Being able to see and set
the exact coordinates of a node would be really useful. Any progress?

Entry fields to edit the x/y coordinates of selected nodes are now added in svn (rev. #16617).

reopening this bug because the current implementation leads to uncontrolled changes of the path when multiple nodes are selected:

1) draw path with multiple nodes
2) in node edit mode select several nodes (>=2)
3) click in one of the entry fields for x/y -> nothing happens
4) click on the other entry field -> the coordinates of the nodes suddenly & unpredictably change without new values entered
5) click again on the first used entry fields -> second unprovoked change of node positions
6) can be 'undone' with 'Ctrl-z'

(may lead to unexpected results when editing LPEs, one crash so far when editing Spiro LPE skeleton path)
confirmed with Inkscape 0.46+devel r22240 on OS X 10.5.8

related (not marked as duplicate) bugs with status 'Fix released' unchanged:
Bug #172113 in Inkscape: “point coords text entry”
Bug #171489 in Inkscape: “Node coordinates”

It would be better to either
- disable the entry fields if more than one node is selected
- as proposed in comment #2: align all selected nodes at the newly entered coordinate(s)

Max - I'm assigning this to you since you implemented the node tool x/y entry fields - I hope that's ok?

clarification:

4) click on the other entry field -> the position of the nodes on canvas suddenly & unpredictably changes without new values entered. The visible node coordinates in the entry fields stay unchanged.

*blush* *head slap* it does exactly this:

> as proposed in comment #2: align all selected nodes at the newly entered coordinate(s)

with a very tight UI: I am not used to trigger an event just by clicking into an entry field and leaving it by clicking somewhere else: my expectation was to trigger the alignment by highlighting the numbers and confirming with <enter>.

anyway - sorry for waking this fixed bug!