On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Fred Morcos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (pseudo code) > if (objtype == "Standard - Line" || "UML - Generalization" || "UML - > Dependency" || etc...) It seems from the rest of the conversation that you will indeed be stuck with comparing strings. If that is actually the case, I would suggest that you make your code as future-proof as possible. For starters, quite a few string constants are already declared as macros. Instead of hard-coding the value as you have shown in the pseudocode, you should consider using such macros. You could possibly define them if they don't already exist, and replace all occurences of each string with the corresponding macro. (As an aside, actually I had promised to clean up many of these hard-coded strings, but that's one of my commitments that has been left by the way-side due to my current busy status) In addition, try to create a function that captures your intention clearly. Instead of inserting a long series of comparisons in the condition part of an if-statement, make it a function with a name like (is_connector) or something specific and meaningful like that. If you can figure out an appropriate file to put that function, that is even better, so that others could also use it. If you really want to get into details, consider implementing this as a function in the Object vtable. Both Lars and Hans will give you a very hard time if you decide to take this last option, but it can sometimes be worth it! Sameer. -- Research Scholar, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ _______________________________________________ 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
