Re: How to modify text?

2012-03-09 Thread Lars Clausen
Or (IIRC) press enter. Sent from my iPhone On 09/03/2012, at 19.39, Sophoklis Goumas olspookishma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 20:37, Chris Green c...@isbd.net wrote: This seems a very silly/simple question but I can't work out the answer. How do you edit text objects after

Re: User interface

2009-08-01 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Henric Persson wrote: Hello, First thanks for a amazing software second.. Im a KDE user if that makes any difference and i like the user interface of the windows version much more than the linux version (Both have version 0.97) where I dont have a floating

Re: Text Highlight color

2009-05-27 Thread Lars Clausen
On May 27, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Jim Clark wrote: I use a pale yellow text for my default text on my diamond decision boxes. When I highlight that text, the yellow highlighting makes my text invisible. Is there some way to change that default color? Only by recompiling. It is currently a

Re: Diagrams within shapes

2009-05-20 Thread Lars Clausen
On May 19, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Felipe Ignacio Cañas Sabat wrote: Hello all, First, congrats on Dia, it surely makes the world a better place :D Now, about my question. Has it ever been considered (or is it possible now) to be able to ``encapsulate'' diagrams within shapes? What I mean is,

Re: How-to set resolution for png export?

2009-04-02 Thread Lars Clausen
On Apr 2, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Richard Moll wrote: Hello, I would like to export some of my Dia diagrams as .png's to include them in a OOo Impress presentation. When exporting via GUI no resolution can be set (here on WinXP with v0.97-pre2) and the default (?) resolution ~400x180 is way

Re: How-to set resolution for png export?

2009-04-02 Thread Lars Clausen
On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Richard Moll wrote: Lars Clausen wrote: On Apr 2, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Richard Moll wrote: Hello, I would like to export some of my Dia diagrams as .png's to include them in a OOo Impress presentation. When exporting via GUI no resolution can be set (here

Re: How-to set resolution for png export?

2009-04-02 Thread Lars Clausen
On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Franz Waldmüller wrote: Richard Moll schrieb: Hello, I would like to export some of my Dia diagrams as .png's to include them in a OOo Impress presentation. When exporting via GUI no resolution can be set (here on WinXP with v0.97-pre2) and the default (?)

Re: How to customize Dia from source?

2009-03-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mar 12, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Meng Sun wrote: Hi all, How can I develop Dia from source in order to provide an GUI Block Diagram interface for GNU Octave, just like Simulink? So what's the starting point? I'm not familiar with either program, but my guess is you want to make a new set of

Re: Edit Text and Tools Question

2009-02-19 Thread Lars Clausen
On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:36 AM, Mark Dexter wrote: Hi again. While we're discussing this, it would be really great if there could be a strong visual indication of when you are in Edit Text mode. Maybe something like a different border or background or cursor or something. This might help the

Re: Arrow Lock bug

2009-02-19 Thread Lars Clausen
On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Russell Petrosky wrote: How do I draw more than one line segment in a row without having to go back to the side box and click the “line” box in-between each segment I draw. Currently after each segment I draw the software automatically reverts back to arrow

Re: Edit Text and Tools Question

2009-02-18 Thread Lars Clausen
On Feb 18, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Mark Dexter wrote: Hi everyone. I'm working on updating the .97 documentation to include the Edit Text and perhaps some other new features. I have run into a question on the F2 / Edit Text command. Here is the scenario. 1. Add a flow chart shape and enter

Re: requirements specification document for Dia

2009-01-02 Thread Lars Clausen
On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Panagiotis Geladaris wrote: I'm planning to work on a requirements specification document for Dia. I hope that the community will be able to provide me with some guidelines in order to overcome difficulties that i may come across with. ...yes? As you can see

Re: Open a file diagram

2008-11-02 Thread Lars Clausen
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Wescley F. Costa wrote: Hi, I created a ER diagram using the Dia program and save it, in the following day, when I tried to open a dia file diagram, the program answer that can´t open this file because it´s an unknown file.. anybody knows why it´s said

Re: [custom-shapes] ext_attribute feature, cannot understand.

2008-07-31 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 29, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Thomas Harding wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:51:20PM +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: A cool idea but it currently can not work because there is no connection between svg interpretation and extended attribute handling. So, what is the purpose of extended

Re: Access to javadoc?

2008-07-31 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 30, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Don Blaheta wrote: I've noticed that the code is fairly well-commented using a modified javadoc format; is there a particular program you have for compiling it into browsable html (as with javadoc)? Or is it just in this careful format for code legibility

Re: Debugging dia?

2008-07-31 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:46 AM, Don Blaheta wrote: Quoth Don Blaheta: How do I make lt-dia? I'd like to run dia inside gdb, and there seems to be a mechanism for this inside app/run_dia.sh, but at least that piece seems to be missing. I still don't know what the correct mechanism is, but

Re: drop shadow

2008-07-26 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 26, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Hi. At 2008-05-07 22:06:01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is probably the dummest question one can ask but I was not figure out to find the option to enable shadows on shapes. [...] Ah, but the About picture is a fake:) There is

Re: name

2008-07-15 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:11 PM, James McDonald wrote: James wrote: On Mon, July 14, 2008 4:11 pm, Diego Jacobi wrote: 2008/7/14, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is the pronunciation dee-a or die-a? How do you pronounce dia-gram? :) I pronounce it di-a-gram (instead of dee-a-gram). A

Re: why negative coordinates?

2008-07-15 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:02 PM, James wrote: What is the purpose to have negative coordinates? No arbitrary limits? Allowing an east-west-north-south view of things? Making it easier to make symmetrical things? Making it easier to make histograms? There's a number of use cases and not

Re: Avoiding connection conflicts/cross-overs in UML diagrams

2008-07-15 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Avijit Ghosh wrote: This is a good idea, in fact we are thinking of outsourcing a project that is going to do just this on a related type of editor. I am trying to get them to move this to dia actually rather than a new invention of the wheel. That said, the

Re: Differentiating between Connectors and Objects

2008-07-10 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Fred Morcos wrote: Diagram Auto-Layouting [1], basically the connections act like springs and the objects act like repulsive charges. A simulation is ran and as the system approaches an equilibrium state, the diagram starts looking good and well layouted. [1]

Re: Differentiating between Connectors and Objects

2008-07-09 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Fred Morcos wrote: Is it possible to get the type of an object without using a returned string (object_get_type)? I want to loop over all the selected objects and count the number of connection objects and the number of other normal objects without having to go

Re: Differentiating between Connectors and Objects

2008-07-09 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Fred Morcos wrote: So basically I am stuck with string comparison of all shapes that were ever created, currently existing and ever to come? On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Fred Morcos wrote

Re: Refactoring app/disp_callbacks.c:ddisplay_canvas_event.c

2008-06-29 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 28, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Am 23.06.2008 11:38, Andrew M. Botros schrieb: It wasn't the easiest thing for me to find where the brace starts and ends... Yeah this is one of the most inconsitent things in Dia. The thing I find most annoying is putting the starting brace

Re: bug in ext_attributes or my xml file?

2008-06-18 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Avijit Ghosh wrote: Hi Hans, could you point me to the bugzilla submission page for dia? Let me do it this way as it'll be easier than working my way through SVN as I have just started using dia on the coding side..

Re: Single-window interface [was: a standard for diagram document format]

2008-06-13 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 13, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: Thanks for changing the subject line ... that was rather careless of me! On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Maciej Jaros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is convenient until you have 3 other windows and 3 diagrams opened and switch

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 12, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Diego Jacobi wrote: Where is the info describing the dia format? It is the same as a shape? It would be nice, the shape being the same thing as a diagram. There is no prose description, just a DTD. And no, shapes are different, and have very different needs -

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 12, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Diego Jacobi wrote: Ok, i have been able to see the xml. But check for this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? dia:diagram xmlns:dia=http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/; dia:diagramdata The page mentioned redirects to the old dia page, and the old dia page

Re: a standard for diagram document format

2008-06-11 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Maciej Jaros wrote: Dnia 2008-06-11 18:13 osoba przedstawiająca się jako José María Martínez napisała: I agree, but does anybody knows if exists any std format for diagrams? I believe that if you would try to define a standard for diagrams that wouldn't be too

Re: some quetsions about features and plugins

2008-06-11 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: Another use would be to really filter objects from a selection. If I am only interested in the arrows in some region of the diagram, I could just select all objects in that region, and then filter out all objects that are not arrows. The

Re: PortableDIA - included in the Softpedia software database

2008-06-10 Thread Lars Clausen
On May 25, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Softpedia Editorial Team wrote: Hello, As you probably already know, PortableDIA, one of your products, is part of Softpedia's database of software programs for the Windows operating system. It is featured with a detailed description, screenshots, download links

Re: trying in vain to paste

2008-06-05 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:00 AM, roger stein wrote: Hi. I see your edit menu includes paste, yet when I have something on my clipboard to paste, the paste option is that sickly pale color that signifies it is comatose and won't be active anytime soon, which proves to indeed be the case when

Re: stymied

2008-06-04 Thread Lars Clausen
On Jun 4, 2008, at 6:30 AM, James McDonald wrote: roger stein wrote: Hi folks: After a little struggle (never having used any diagram-creating software before) I figured out how to manipulate the lines, and thought, Okay, everything should proceed smoothly from here. The fact that I'm

Re:

2008-05-14 Thread Lars Clausen
On May 7, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Jay Vyas wrote: Hi guys : I have two weird problems. A few weeks ago, I followed the port installation instructions for Dia, and they worked. (http://dia.darwinports.com/) Then I noticed one day it miraculously was gone ?! I launched my terminal, typed dia, and

Re: [Dia/Accentuation]

2008-05-14 Thread Lars Clausen
On May 13, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Brice wrote: Bonjour, Ce courriel ne nécessite pas de réponse. C'est juste pour signaler que je n'arrivais plus à ouvrir mes diagrammes. La solution a été d'enlever les accents dans le nom du fichier. If my French is not totally off, you were having problems

Re: Data for Custom Shapes

2008-05-09 Thread Lars Clausen
On May 9, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Todd White wrote: Some of the sheets have shapes which have custom data on the shape properties dialog. Is there a way to add custom data fields to my own shapes? Do I need to create an addin? The only information I was able to find creating shapes is located

Re: drop shadow

2008-05-07 Thread Lars Clausen
On May 6, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Tobias Rothe wrote: Hello, this is probably the dummest question one can ask but I was not figure out to find the option to enable shadows on shapes. I mean exactly like on the picture that you get when you click on help-about. I am using version 0.96.1 on

Maintainership moves on...

2008-05-01 Thread Lars Clausen
As some may have noted, there's been a gradual decrease in my activity on Dia, for numerous reasons. I've talked it over with Hans, and he's agreed to take over the maintainership (and the recent activity on his side certainly is a hint:). It's been great to help Dia along, and I hope it

Re: Dia ChangeLog report for 2008-04-27 03:00:01 UTC (Sun 27 Apr)

2008-04-27 Thread Lars Clausen
On Apr 27, 2008, at 5:11 AM, Dia ChangeLog Daemon wrote: Snapshots available at http://www.raeder.dk/~larsrc/Dia/snapshots *** Recent ChangeLog entries: --- ChangeLog.previous2008-04-22 05:00:09.0 +0200 +++ dia-svn-snapshot/ChangeLog2008-04-27 05:00:07.245180672

Re: Dia - request 4 dev

2008-04-15 Thread Lars Clausen
Before requesting development, please try out the newest SVN version. Several of the things you mention have been implemented already. -Lars On Apr 15, 2008, at 1:51 PM, David Nguyen wrote: Hi, I have some requests for dia (mine is on Windows, dunno if it's the same on Linux). 1-

Re: tools short cuts in windows

2008-04-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Apr 11, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Steffen Macke wrote: Hello, thanks for the report. This problem is not Windows specific, I reproduced it with the current SVN head on Linux. I've filed bug #527565 for this: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527565 It looks like all the shortcuts

Re: Units in dia

2008-04-09 Thread Lars Clausen
On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, I've got a few questions regarding units and sizes in dia: 1. In page setup, I can set a page size, but I can't see the page borders in the canvas 2. What are the units of the rulers, and how can they be changed? 3. What

Re: Printing grid lines in Dia

2008-03-03 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 15:38 -0500, Ronald Croft wrote: I'm preparing an autocross track, and I'm laying the course out in Dia. I need to print the grid lines so people know where to place the cones. How do I print grid lines in Dia? There's currently no way to print the grid lines. When

Re: DIa Port to Java

2008-02-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:58 -0800, Alex Mandel wrote: Depends on what you're looking for in an IDE. Oddly enough the Eclipse PyDev plugin is ok, debugger sucks though But my preference right now is for: boa-constructor (good debugger-interactive, and gui builder) Stani's Python Editor

Re: Question about Dia

2008-02-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:59 -0500, Laura Alzate wrote: Hi! I`m an user of dia. I need to know hoe can I write a text in vertical direction. I use Dia for many presentations in my work, now I`m limitated with de direction of the text... In the current SVN version, there is a text outline

Re: DIa Port to Java

2008-02-20 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:33 +, Aaron Trevena wrote: On 16/02/2008, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 08:30 -0600, Mark and Lisa Collins wrote: I am trying to find a developer, for hire, that would be interesting in building Dia in Java with some

Re: running dia on mac os x 10.3.9, errors with multiple definitions of symbol

2008-02-20 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:47 -0800, John Mendenhall wrote: I am new to dia. I have installed dia v0.96.1 on mac os x 10.3.9 using macports. It has installed fine. When I run dia, I am running it from the X11 that came with Apple. I have read this may be a problem. When I run dia, I get

Re: DIa Port to Java

2008-02-16 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 08:30 -0600, Mark and Lisa Collins wrote: I am trying to find a developer, for hire, that would be interesting in building Dia in Java with some modifications. Can you point me to someone who might eb interested? I have been thinking that that would be the way to go;

Re: Problem with not printing to scale

2008-02-13 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:25 -0800, John King III wrote: Thanks. When you say scalling operators, do you mean in print setup or someplace else? I made sure it was set to 100% scale. Yes, print setup. This got me thinking and so I just tried setting the margins to 0 and it's still long.

Re: Problem with not printing to scale

2008-02-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 15:03 -0800, John King III wrote: Hi, i'm trying to print the attached dia file to scale. I set the graph so that x and y are 0.254 cm which equals 0.1 inch. So if I print this then the line going across 10 units (may have to adjust your grid spacing to see this since I

Re: Move objects between layers

2008-02-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:23 -0800, John King III wrote: Is there a way to move an object from one layer to another? Not at the moment. I started work on such functionality, but got stuck in the undo implementation. Anyone who feels like furthering that work, the functions implied are

Re: Dia wiki down?

2008-02-11 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 14:34 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 12:56 +, Simon Brunning wrote: I tried to download Dia, but the download page seems to be broken: http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Download Indeed, all the Wiki pages except for the front page seem broken.

Re: dia for floor plans

2008-02-08 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 00:14 -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: hello I am very new to dia, and I was wondering if there are some templates to use dia to draw baisic 2D floorlayouts we use Visio for this now, and visio has a tool that can calc square feet inside a shape. How would I use dia to

Re: Drawing sequence diagrams with dia

2008-02-01 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:44 +0100, Per Olesen wrote: Hi Lars, The following is about the current SVN version of Dia, not version 0.96.1 -- the lifeline is much improved now: Thanks, great. I went ahead building trunk, but I am having some trouble, which seems to be with the FR

Re: Drawing sequence diagrams with dia

2008-01-31 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:18 +0100, Per Olesen wrote: Hi, Can I draw sequence diagrams with dia? I looked through the various shapes and could only find lifeline in the UML bunch of shapes, which looks like something I should use in a sequence diagram. But I am having trouble using it.

Re: Printing not using monospaced font?

2008-01-31 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 08:44 -0500, Ryan J Nauman wrote: Everything works fine except when I print my file the fonts are not monospaced? Can you send an example where this happens? Seems nicely monospaced what I'm trying. And is this on a Windows or a Linux machine? -Lars

Re: Scaling Entire Drawing

2008-01-30 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:30 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm brand new to Dia (using 0.96.1), and didn't realize that the rulers are in centimeters despite my setting the page size to US Letter. So I ended up drawing the ER diagram much too large. When I selected all objects I could not

Re: Re-Parent UML Class

2008-01-25 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:50 +0200, Asaf wrote: hello How to re-parent class from one Large-Package to another ? or from the root to some package ? currently I'm editing the .dia file directly , or recreate the class Select the class, then select Object - Unparent in the menu. Now you can

Re: Dia non-uniform scaling (aka sub shapes) patch UPDATE (against svn rev. 3875)

2008-01-17 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:47 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote: Hi guys, first of all, best wishes for the new year! With this post I present, to you, the latest update to the non-uniform scaling patch. This post is an update to the original posts: - The Preview Post:

Re: vertical rotated text

2008-01-14 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:25 +0100, Rudolf Lessmann wrote: Hi, Dia is really a good software to draw simple diagrams. Still one thing that i really miss is the possibility to write 90° rotated text. just asking, is there some implementation on the schedule? Hans has made an arbitrarily

Re: Stretching grouped objects

2008-01-10 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 08:43 +0100, Maciej Jaros wrote: You were talking about SVG and DIA isn't SVG and it doesn't support SVG in shapes fully (as said by Marcel in the other topic). But in DIA you can scale most shapes so you might say DIA also supports scaling grouped SVG objects -

Re: DiaObject Initial Values

2007-12-15 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 05:34 -0800, Plamen Todorov wrote: Hello, I am working on a plugin that needs to have initial properties set when the object is created (computed at runtime). I set the initial values in the CreateFunc of the plugin, but after the object creation these are

Re: Configure dia systemwide

2007-12-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 11:28 +0100, schoenfeld / in-medias-res wrote: Hi, for our developer systems I try to set a configuration option for dia systemwide. But I found no global configuration file for dia, that would enable me to do so. Also it does not seem as if dia would use gconf for

Re: Missing the PNG size dialog window

2007-12-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 23:09 -0500, David Wiener wrote: Hi First - dia is great! My small problem is this: I just installed FC8 on my work laptop and loaded up dia (0.96.1). In previous versions, for at least the last several months, when I exported a diagram as a PNG I was given a

Re: DDL

2007-12-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 12:25 -0500, minky arora wrote: Hi All, I am very new to Dia.SO please bear with me. I have a basic question.Once I make the schema using Dia ,I get a .dia file right?? how can I generate the DDL from that?Are the two related? You can use tedia2sql

Re: DDL

2007-12-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 14:37 -0500, minky arora wrote: Thanks, I had looked at those..I work on a mac..i dnt think there is anything for mac. On 12/12/07, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 12:25 -0500, minky arora wrote: Hi All, I am very new

Non-.shape suffix in shape export

2007-12-11 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:59 -0800, Plamen Todorov wrote: Hello, Dia crashes if it is attempted to export shape to a file, which extension is not .shape (the UI allows to type whatever file extension the user likes or no extension at all). The problem seems to come from

Re: Any new comments on the non-uniform scaling patch?

2007-12-09 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:39 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote: 2007/12/4, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually, it's not a bug in the SVG path code. The bottom-left sub-shape does not have an outline, it consists of fill-only. But, as I have stated previously, the default value

Re: Can't get TeX math to work

2007-12-09 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:22 -0500, Yang wrote: I've been trying more things over the past few days, to no avail. With PGF, I get the exact same problem: the TeX is not being interpreted. Inspecting the output .tex, I see that Dia is explicitly quoting the $ into \$. Why? Because in a

Re: Any new comments on the non-uniform scaling patch?

2007-12-07 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:43 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote: In my defense, the DEFAULT_WIDTH and DEFAULT_HEIGHT are defined as 2.0, whatever the current unit system in use. Meaning, that custom shapes default to 2x2cm in europe and 2x2in. in the US. From this follows that the

Re: Any new comments on the non-uniform scaling patch?

2007-12-04 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:28 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote: Lars/any dev with svn acces/anyone else, Can you please comment on the updated information about the non-uniform scaling patch (I've added extra information via Replies to that thread) Sorry it took a bit, I've again been busier than

Re: ZigZag Line

2007-12-01 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 17:03 -0500, Todd Marshall wrote: Somehow I can get the ZigZag line to be what I want. But I don't know how I do it. Just two segments with an arrow at one end (used for flowchart) --- | | | or | | | V The way to do it consistently is to delete

Re: no way to select text?

2007-11-30 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:07 -0500, Todd Marshall wrote: Hi, Just to be clear, there is no way to Select text in objects? (..Ctl-Shift-V does Paste. Is there Copy?) If not, This does not seem hard to just put in. (like the other text stuff) Personal Humble Opinion: I don't see a need to

Re: connecting objects

2007-11-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:35 -0800, c l wrote: I am using Dia 0.96.1 on a Linux machine. I am using the UML modelization and I drew several 'Large packages'. Then I put different 'Classes' in the large packages. I can connect classes in the same package 'Aggregation'. I can connect

Re: Greek Characters in Dia for Windows

2007-11-27 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:03 +0100, Christian Venerus wrote: Hi all, I need to insert greek letters in a Dia (Win version) diagram, but the Symbol font is not available. Is there any way to add the Symbol font or to add another similar font type? Σηατ υοθ ςα... What you want is a font

Re: Pasting text into dia diagrams. Was: Re: hello

2007-11-26 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:58 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote: Hi Todd, pasting text from the paste buffer in dia does not use 'ctrl+v', but rather 'ctrl+shift+v'. I never understood this design decision¹ either but it's the way it works for now. Not so much of a decision as a dirty hack. ¹ I

Re: Request for approval: Non-uniform scaling (a.k.a. subshapes) patch

2007-11-24 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 16:45 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote: Hi guys, With this post I present my non-uniform scaling patch (i.e. the non-scaling subshapes). [...] I've added the functionality by reusing as much code as was available and usable for the purpose of non-uniform scaling, to

Re: connecting objects

2007-11-20 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:43 -0800, c l wrote: Hello, In the http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/doc/dia-manual.pdf Page 23, Note: To learn more about advantages in connecting different objects together, you should read the Connecting Objects section. Where can I find this section? It

Re: dia and OSX

2007-11-15 Thread Lars Clausen
Sylvain Pigatto said: Hi, Is dia compatible with Mac OSX ? Which version should I donwnload ? brgds To the best of my knowledge, there's no precompiled OSX package of Dia. If you search the mailing list archives, you'll find mails from a few people who's compiled it in the past, and there's

Re: Information about DIA

2007-11-15 Thread Lars Clausen
Ricardo Sequeira Bechelli said: Hello, My name is Ricardo and I'm software analyst of Metro company of São Paulo (Brazil). I'm doing several researches about free softwares and I like to know more about DIA. First of all I'm very interested is this sofwtare and want to use here in my

Re: SourceCode comments

2007-11-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:16 +0100, Aaron Mueller wrote: Hi! I just saw Dia on ohloh[1] and added some links, tags and a small review. On the summary there is a small issue listed named Few source code comments[2]. According to the statistics, Dia has 13% source code documentation. I

Re: Text rotation

2007-11-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:34 -0500, Michael Ross wrote: I regularly move between programs to do what I want, but I would prefer not to. I often annotate graphs and photos - rotated text in Dia would be nice. Glad you like the idea too. I only use Gimp for the perspective function to square

Re: Text rotation

2007-11-12 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 15:02 -0500, Michael Ross wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 1:44 PM, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious about the better bezier editing, will have to check that. It is not that different except in the activation of it. With Inkscape you have

Re: Non-uniform scaling preview.

2007-11-11 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 02:00 +0100, Marcel Toele wrote: Hi guys, there are still a few little details to be resolved, but I've managed to put the non-uniform scaling into dia custom shapes without too many code changes. Great! I'm very happy to see so many contributions coming in, the

Re: ChangeLog Demon and 'Standard - Outline' (was Re: Dia ChangeLog reportfor 2007-11-06 13:01:39 UTC (Tue 06 Nov))

2007-11-10 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 18:15 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote: On 10.11.2007 08:12, Lars Clausen wrote: Hans Breuer said: [...] Unfortunately I dont know a way to make the filling respect holes within the glyphs. The path data delivered by cairo just consist out of different outlines, the first

Re: ChangeLog Demon and 'Standard - Outline' (was Re: Dia ChangeLog reportfor 2007-11-06 13:01:39 UTC (Tue 06 Nov))

2007-11-10 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 18:09 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote: On 10.11.2007 16:50, Lars Clausen wrote: That's true. Sheesh, now I'll have to look at what it'd take to allow normal text to rotate:) The main problem I see is to get it in all the renderers. A lot of effort for a small feature

Re: ChangeLog Demon and 'Standard - Outline' (was Re: Dia ChangeLog reportfor 2007-11-06 13:01:39 UTC (Tue 06 Nov))

2007-11-09 Thread Lars Clausen
Hans Breuer said: On 05.11.2007 23:15, Lars Clausen wrote: There's an issue with filling in some letters, otherwise it looks nice. Unfortunately I dont know a way to make the filling respect holes within the glyphs. The path data delivered by cairo just consist out of different outlines

Re: problem with custom shape

2007-11-08 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 10:04 -0800, Brian Hoff wrote: I'm using Dia 96.1-7 on Win32. I've created a custom shape. When I bring it into a new diagram, its been shrink. How do I get it to come in at the size it was created? I'm afraid you'll have to manually resize it in the diagram. At the

Re: problem with custom shape

2007-11-08 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 14:00 -0500, Michael Ross wrote: Let me get this straight, if I make a shape 1 inch by 1 inch it will come off the palette 2cm x 2cm? If I make it within a 2cm x 2cm frame, it will look the way I drew it when pulled from the pallette? Yes. It always scales to 2x2

Re: Dia ChangeLog report for 2007-11-06 13:01:39 UTC (Tue 06 Nov)

2007-11-05 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:24 +0100, Dia ChangeLog Daemon wrote: Snapshots available at http://www.raeder.dk/~larsrc/Dia/snapshots *** Recent ChangeLog entries: --- ChangeLog.previous2007-09-27 05:00:06.0 +0200 +++ dia-svn-snapshot/ChangeLog2007-11-06

Re: Fixed height and width on shape

2007-11-03 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:42 +0100, Aaron Mueller wrote: Hallo everybody! I am struggling with a new UML2.0 Shape (the component [1]) but I can't find any solution to keep the little symbol in the top right corner allways in the same size while the box around can be resize. I found some

Re: Dia image to small -

2007-10-31 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:43 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: I have a system diagram created with dia almost two years ago. I used the current dia for Fedora 7 [yum install dia] and after editing my diagram find that when converted to .png the result needs to be enlarged about 2.5 times, to

Re: Potential development page

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 21:55 +0530, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: On 10/27/07, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for yet. All you people out there who are just waiting to contribute, please both take a look:) I'll fill in more stuff from the bug reports as I wheedle down my backlog

Re: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 22:03 +0530, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: On 10/27/07, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So invisible (as opposed to transparent) text would not be counted towards diagram extents? If that's not the point, I don't know what there is to toggling visibility

In-diagram documentation [Was: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible]

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 14:01 -0400, Michael Ross wrote: In the development environment of LabVIEW, we place functional icons - subroutines. They are connected by wires of data. The whole business is self documenting, if you use it with that intent. When you bring your cursor above an icon a

Re: How to incorporate Greek letters?

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 16:15 +0200, Heru Utomo, B. (Béate) wrote: Hi there, I am currently working on my PhD thesis and I am using Dia to draw some illustrative graphs. Since I am working on a technical subject, I would like to incorporate some Greek symbols in my drawing. I couldn't find

Re: Unused DiaObject::edit_text() - remove or implement?

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 12:26 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote: While reviewing the patch for http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60331 I stumbled about TextEditFunc added 2,5 years ago http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/dia/trunk/lib/object.h?r1=3029r2=3028pathrev=3029 but not implmented/used until

Re: Re: creating custom shapes for visual storytelling (dave boyle)

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 20:50 -0400, dave boyle wrote: I see the xml in the *.shape files and the ext_attributes lines and have played with them. Where can I find a list of all the different types and their properties? Thanks! Sorry about the long response time. There's all the types listed in

Re: are there any more samples as .dia available

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear ladies and Gentlemen, at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Examples we found examples as .png and in the sources (not in the windows install package) we found some .dia samples. Are there any more samples available? PS: We

Re: How do I add new objects?

2007-10-28 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:11 -0500, Luna Bella wrote: hello. How do I add new objects? Sorry for the late reply. You can either create simple shapes using XML or program objects in C. There's more info at http://dia-installer.de/howto/create_shape/index.html and

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