After using Kinovea for a few weeks, here are some features worth implementing:
1. Greater customization of the timer - changing the font and changing the background and text colors separately
2. Guides - so that when moving elements, it's easy to arrange them evenly, at the same height or width
3. Manually setting the element size by entering the size in pixels
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For 2. Guides, I think the simplest way to implement that at the moment would be an option to enable "snapping" to a virtual grid, like every 20 pixels or similar. I will double check how it works in various software.
I think the other solution is that the first object is placed freely and then when you move another one there is a guideline that appears to align it. This second solution means it needs to check all other objects while moving. But it allows aligning center to center which could be desirable. If you have a prototypical example of an application where it works well don't hesitate to share.
I would like to find something useful while keeping things visually simple.
I know of one example where it just snaps the center of the rectangle to evenly spaced virtual grid lines, this is nice and simple (but can't left-align, they are always center-aligned).
For 3. element size, is it about the timer/labels? The object size is based on the font size for these.
3 2026-02-11 07:20:53 (edited by marcin_pl 2026-02-11 07:21:05)
For 1: The text color seems to be automatic based on the background, or I'm just not seeing the option to change it. Also, I have another idea - changing the time format to something like hh:mm.0 (with tenths of a second) and hh:mm.
For 2: Yeah, a virtual grid sounds like a good idea. Maybe with an option to change the size/precision to 20 pixels or more? Or even shortcuts for horizontal and vertical alignment, like in Photoshop or Corel.
For 3: Take imported images for example. I want to import two images and set them to the exact same size. Resizing them by dragging isn't really precise enough.