On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 12:28, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > > Why not coding the size of the box when saving the file ? Text size
> > > helps determine what the size of the box should be, *initially* (ie when
> > > creating the object). Then IMHO, the size should be saved persistently
> > > and reused. That would probably solve this issue. If you have anything
> > > against that, please explain.
> > 
> > Only problem is that once you edit the text, the size changes, even if
> > you don't change the text. 
> 
> But that case, all the anchor are updated as well and we are not hit by
> the side effect described when load a UNIX generated diagram on Windows.
> No ?

It would look funny, but not as funny as it currently does.

> >  But that may be a better option.  It will be
> > realizable once the current change in text edit method is complete.
> > 
> > However, it also means that either the text will spill over, or the
> > width of the text must be preserved in some other way -- which is
> > doable.
> 
> Perhaps can we "lock" the size ?

Basically save the size of each text element with it.  That may be a
good idea.  We're using a semi-fixed size to twiddle against anyway
(currently just 100% zoom size).

-Lars

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