Over the past week I have spent many many hours carefully designing and crafting new shapes for Dia. Im a bit of a perfectionist sometimes, i hope it shows in the shapes i have drawn.
a quick screenshot here http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/screenshots/dia_toolbox_AssortedShapesbyAlanHorkan002.png and the shapes and sheets here http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/dia-Assorted.zip Please do inlcude this sheet in Dia. All 40 shapes produced from scratch using Dia 0.90 on windows 98. All icons are 22x22 PNGs with transparancey, most of which i edited in the Gimp (and mspaint). I have plenty more shapes and templates, unfortunately I dont know when i will have time to clean them up and create a sheet though. There are some templates like the donut/torus i mentioned previously that simply wont convert to proper shapes files. Looking at programs similar to Dia have also given me a few ideas. Although I dont expect to have time to draw many this shapes again soon i do intend to keep drawing a lit bit here and there. If people have any requests for shapes i would appreciate if someone would please file them in bugzilla (preferably the person who wants the shape drawn) and I will try and do them when i have time. It will also greatly help me to prioritise what people would actually find most useful. The shape export has a few problems, which i just dont have time to look at now that my quiet week is over. Some of the Beziergons are getting exported with no connection points, just a closing tag </connections> adding in the openning tag so it reads <connections></connections> causes import errors (or at least that is what seemed to be happening dont have time for more rigourous testing or thourough checking although quite a few of the shapes i made were Beziergons) I hand edited many of the shapes as the includes duplicate connection points. For a filled polygon i think what the shape exporter is doing is exporting all connections points for the outline polygon and exporting all the same connection points again for the fill polygon. (I have a decent example of this, ill try to file it in bugzilla). It also seems to be leaving out a connection point at about clock position 10/11 o'clock on the polygons i have converted to shapes (in some but not all cases i worked out the coordinates and added them in a text editor). This message is getting a bit long, so ill leave it at that and get back to you all if/when i have time to bug find and (maybe) bug fix. (damned kernel32.dll crash then BSOD i cannot even begin to explain but have had happen several times...) Sincerely Alan Horkan http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
