In the DAQ development system I use called LabVIEW they provide a color they call "transparent." It is indeed a useful color.
Even better would be a slider for color transparency and for layer transparency. I often wish the fill of a shape could be transparent -- if it seems really important then I crank up Inkscape. But that would never be as good as having the ability native to Dia. It is still a good idea to toggle the visibility of text in a shape. A hidden or temporarily invisible note could also double as a documentation field for a particular instance of a shape. Mike On 10/25/07, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:43 +0530, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: > > On 10/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > So the exact issue is that the text displayed by the time scale > should > > > > be optional. A tick-box in the properties to toggle text should be > very > > > > useful. One could even consider a tick-box to toggle the minor time > > > > step. > > > > > > This would certainly solve the "issue" for this particular shape. > However, > > > I suspect there are other shapes where it might also be useful to be > able > > > to hide the text. So instead of fixing all the likely shapes, and > possibly > > > adding a lot of check tick-boxes, this might be a more general > solution. > > > > I would vote for correctness than ease of coding. If it takes some > > effort to go look at every object, then so be it. What you really want > > is that displaying some built-in text on some objects should be > > optional, then that is what it should be. Making it invisible obscures > > the intention. Who knows, when someone gets around to coding this, > > they might notice an abstraction that helps in ways not currently > > foreseen. > > Well, if text could be made invisible, then why not other things? It > could make sense to have an "invisible" color -- any renderer can handle > that simply be not rendering the thing in question. That way we provide > much more than by having an extra option to turn any text field on/off. > > -Lars > > > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > -- Michael Ross ================================= Cycling in Central North Carolina Schwinn Voyageur 11.8 Linear LWB, Greenspeed GTO, BikeE CT, AT
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