Hey. Great!
Next Question:
I'm trying to find a simple text box...?
Thanks! I'm getting happier all the time.
Todd.
The program is very pleasant in spite of the quirks.


I am using Dia to create some UML, export to .wmf, import to word .doc


On Nov 26, 2007 3:58 PM, Marcel Toele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> pasting text from the paste buffer in dia does not use 'ctrl+v', but rather
> 'ctrl+shift+v'.
> I never understood this design decision ¹ either but it's the way it works
> for now.
>
>
> ¹  I think it has to do with the fact that:
>         1. A selected text object in dia always has keyboard focus; and
>         2. On top of that, dia always keeps short-cut focus.
>
> PS
> I saw a discussion about text objects and focus a few weeks ago, don't know
> what
> has become of it. Again, it would be best to have text objects get/lose
> explicit
> keyboard focus. This way it should be possible to differentiate between
> ctrl+v on a
> text object *with* keyboard focus (namely, paste text from the system's
> pastebuffer)
> and ctrl+v on a text object without keyboard focus, namely a shortcut that
> doesn't get
> handled and should dripple through to the diagram keyboard handler to issue
> a paste
> of what is inside a dia copy buffer.
>
>
> 2007/11/26, Todd Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > First of all I would like to get my email sending to this list, so
> > this is a test!
> > Second - Question - Dia does NOT have copy paste on the Win32 version,
> > cannot paste text into the diagrams?
> > thanks
> > Todd.
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