Shapes and images can now be resized, rotated, and skewed directly
on the canvas, not just moved. Both share one small transform
struct (rotation, then skew, then scale, anchored on a movable
pivot) and one handle widget, so a corner drag, an edge skew, or
grabbing the rotate handle behaves the same way and runs through
the same matrix math everywhere, instead of every item type
reinventing its own.
Shapes also gained a proper pen tool (bezier paths, corner/smooth/
symmetric nodes), arc support, and mirroring. Images gained
non-destructive cropping and colour-keyed transparency, both
remember their own settings, so reopening the dialog picks up
where you left off instead of starting over.
Properties dialogs for both were extended to match (position,
size, angle, skew), with undo/redo wired through for every handle
drag.
Old XML files can read easily as the transformation is only added
if needed and the old syntax is still used and understood if it is
not needed.
Drawing tools on the diagram canvas always started new shapes and free
text from a fixed hardcoded default (Qt's plain QPen()/QBrush(), and
the static Preferences font) -- changing a shape's color or a text's
font had zero effect on what the next new item of that type got, even
within the same editing session.
Add LastUsedStyle: a small in-memory, session-scoped static helper
(no QSettings, no persistence across restarts -- this is a live "what
did I just use" value, not a new app-wide default). Write side hooks
capture the value right where the properties editors already apply a
change (ShapeGraphicsItemPropertiesWidget::associatedUndo(), both the
live-edit dock path and the modal editProperty() dialog path; and
IndiTextPropertiesWidget::on_m_font_pb_clicked() right after the font
dialog returns). Read side hooks apply the stored value, if any, to a
newly created item: DiagramEventAddShape::mousePressEvent for shapes,
IndependentTextItem's constructor for free text (falling back to the
existing QETApp::indiTextsItemFont() Preferences default otherwise).
Doesn't touch the element/symbol editor's own drawing tools (a
separate subsystem) or add last-used text color (no color control
exists in the text properties UI to originate it from yet).
Andre Rummler