Le Sat, May 25, 2002, � 05:29:32PM +0100, Alan Horkan a �crit: (I'm replying to specific things; for too NSIS-related stuff, I'll let Steffen answer -- he knows this stuff better).
> The installer generates a batch file that sets the %HOME% variable every > time and then calls dia. I think it would be much simpler to just add the > following line to the autoexec.bat file: > SET HOME=%windir% REM Dia expects a Home variable. [snip] Beware that setting and retrieving the HOME directory, and its default value is different on just *every* flavour of Windows so far. Some use Autoexec.bat, some use the Registry, etc. This is really tricky. The batch is a safe way to do. > The tree view is intersting, but i was also hoping/expecting to see the > new Preferences dialog and Hubert Figueres toolbar enhancement. I'm not very up to date on this. Have these patches been committed ? Are people waiting for me to commit them ? (I need to be made more aware of them, then). Hubert's toolbar enhancement may be the button with the right-pointing triangle, located in left upper corner, between the rulers. You need to enable a setting in the prefs dialog to see it, IIRC. > The installer sets up a load of things in the context menu. > One them is obviously wrong: > C:\Program Files\dia\bin\dia.bat > and there are way too many of the others which are of the form > Create X, > where X is virtually all the export formats dia supports. > These should be trimmed back to about five of the most useful/commonly > used export formats and/or put into a "Convert to" submenu or something. I plead guilty for writing the wishlist bug asking for these entries; a submenu may be a good idea. dia 0.90.RC1 is on my work machine, but I didn't have the time to check this. > ** (dia.exe:4294447971): WARNING **: object_get_type(EML - Process) > returned NULL > > ** (dia.exe:4294447971): WARNING **: object_get_type(EML - Instantiation) > returned NULL > > ** (dia.exe:4294447971): WARNING **: object_get_type(EML - Interaction) > returned NULL > > ** (dia.exe:4294447971): WARNING **: object_get_type(EML - Interaction > (orthogonal)) returned NULL > > I guess this means that the EML shapes are missing. Yes; EML.sheet MUST NOT BE DISTRIBUTED. The EML library has been contributed about a year ago; however, it lacks GPL and Copyright headers. I pinged the original author so that he sends us a fix, otherwise we don't legally have the right to distribute this work. He failed to answer, so I disabled the objects/EML directory; normally EML.sheet.in is not registered in sheets/Makefile.am anymore. I guess it's still in the Win32 makefiles. > point. I was doing some testing to see how robust dia was. I deleted the > image dia_logo.png and this causes dia to fail to load, or at least stall > for quite a while. A tiny window comes up with the message loading and > after quite a while the toolbox does eventually appear. Well, if you break things, broken behaviour can't be totally unexpected.... > When i right click on a diagram and do not have an object selected i > expected the Diagram Properties dialog (which includes background > propeties) rather than an error message telling me i have not selected > anything. Alternatively (but less useful) if all you are going to do is > tell me i have nothing seleceted then why not grey/gray out the Properties > menu item. Please file a minor enhancement bug; this would indeed be nice to fix. > I like standard keybindings. I like consistant keybindings. I like > Ctrl+Modifier (or whatever platform specific command key+Modifier). > In RC1 Ctrl+W is bound to Save As. I have never seen an application that > uses this keybinding, Ctrl+W is always bound to Close. I can only > assume was an accident because of the proximity of Save As to Close. To > put it politely this really irks me. > Show grid has been bound to G, (Ctrl+G is taken) which is inconsistant and > mildy confusing. (leaving this stuff to the keybinding experts) > it still sucks that my laptop only has two buttons and i need to plugin a > mouse to access the middle button features. maybe ctrl+rightclick to > emulate third button or perhaps someone knows of a workaround. C-rightclick is indeed working very well on Windows. > color you prefer). It would be great if dia could be set to > (centi)meters rather than inches based on my locale (but im geussing this > is another win32 flaw). dia talks centimetres only. We even get bug reports from the country which usually inflicts us non-standard units (like Mozilla which won't let me set the paper and margin sizes in units I can understand...) read http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=61422&repeatmerged=yes and have some fun. I actually resisted a couple times sending a reply (on a "this is the revenge" tone)... It would probably nice to make the default grid 2.5 mm across with the visible grid 4x the actual grid size. This is usually what I do after a little while, when I work on a diagram. May make even more sense to make this a pref, and have these prefs be loaded as defaults when opening a new diagram. -- Cyrille -- Grumpf. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
