Finally got around to trying this out. It is very cool. It's going to make bulky ER diagrams much more manageable. Thanks!
Andy On 2001.10.30 17:18 Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote: > Cyrille Chepelov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This feature sounds interesting... Please hack at will ! Unfortunately, > > given the current apparently very limited time historic coders of dia can > > spend on it nowadays, things are very quiet on the CVS side. I don't even > > know whether my snapshot generator even generates correct tarballs, and if > > not, what's broken in them :-( > > > > I guess the general policy applies: show us unidiffs that rock and they get > > in :-) > > > > hi, > > the attached patch (to be applied to the current CVS tree) implements > the diagram window idea i mentioned a few days ago: > > - a new menu item "View/Diagram tree" in the toolbox toggles the > diagram tree window. > > - the window shows a tree with the currently open diagrams as its nodes. > > - each node can be expanded to show the diagram's objects as an icon + > the object name, text or type (depending on whether the object has > a "name" or "text" properties). > > - clicking on a diagram node brings its window to the foreground, and > clicking on an object's node also selects the object within the > diagram. > > - the tree content is kept in sync as you add/remove diagrams/objects, > or change the "name" property (i haven't found the way to > automatically update the "text" when you change it, but it is > updated when you click on the object's node). > > - a new dia preference can be set specifying whether to show the > diagram window at startup or not (it would be very easy to add > preferences to set the window's dimensions if you think it's > useful, probably in a new tab on the preferences dialog). > > i've not tested these new features in depth, but they seem to work > pretty well here. any feedback will be highly appreciated! > > i hope the unidiff rocks enough to get in :-) > > best regards, > > jao > > _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
