I haven't got time enough to get inkscape compiling, but i have found a solution to my most important problem.

I like inkscape a lot and im beginning to use inkscape more and more for developing with flex. One of the main problems is that is has a different coordinate system which makes it very cumbersome if you cant automatically get the correct coordinates into my flex. Although by far the best solution is to implement something into inkscape, i have found a solution which works NOW and works perfectly for me.

The basic idea is as follows

- select item
- copy the x, y, width, height
- do some math to correct to coordinates
- save it to a textfile in the required format
- select next item etc etc etc

This is perfectly to do in autoit (freeware windows scripter).

Although i am aware this is not really the most robust solution ever... i don't realy care that much since it beats the hack out of manual processing the coordinates. Besides it doest also perform some sanity checks to make it stop if things go wrong. For me this was the last step for having a pretty professional freeware(!) setup with which im a lot more productive compared to the tools of adobe. Still i hope the dev team will soon bridge this gap themselves if i cant find the time to do it.

Anyway, i get the coordinates exactly in the format i want (action script code, mxml or whatever) . For this to work without any manual intervention i set the title on each object and this gets exported as well. So the only thing i now have to do is copy/paste all objects i want into a blank svg and then start the script. After a short time i get a message the script is ready and i get a text files with all coordinates nicely and ready for import in my flex.

I dont' know if someone can use my tips but if its even one person, my post wasn't for nothing .

You might wonder why i havent posted the script here... but i think its not a good idea, since you should really understand what is happening before you can use it without bad things happening. But it only takes 15-60 minutes to make so you can easily create one yourself (mine was under 100 lines of code and i had not used autoit for like 5 years) .

(PS dont consider this in anyway critical to the devs of inkscape for which i have a great respect. I just dont got the time to wait for them to implement what i need. Maybe someday in the near future ill submit a real patch for some serious flex exporting capability but for now this is working nicely for me. )