On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Hans Breuer wrote: > At 23.09.2008 22:09, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Hans Breuer wrote: > > > >> At 23.09.2008 18:41, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >>> I gather that dia has an API, > >> Yes. See the sources: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/dia/trunk/ > >>> that is a mechanism > >>> for producing diagrams from a user-written program, > >> Sorry, I don't follow your conclusion. Dia *is* a program to produce > >> diagrams. It can be extended with plug-ins written in C or Python. > > > > I thought that the engine could be used > > by something other than the GUI. > Their is no such separation in Dia, i.e. there is no "diagram engine" > separate from the GUI.
Oh well. > > E.g., if I wanted a dia-gram of the ruler function > the only ruler I'm aware of in Dia are the GUI elements provided by Gtk+ The ruler function is a mathematical function, interesting, but no fun to draw. > > or to space boxes with a formula, > only very simple functionality provide by app/ > > > I could write a program that would use the engine. > I think you should start looking at the sources. I'm afaid you are > imagining a lot of things into Dia which simply is not there. I had seen references to the "dia API", but without enough context to be sure what it meant. > Yes. But this is quite out of scope for what Dia is meant to be. > You may want to look at projects like http://www.graphviz.org/ Thank you for the suggestion. -- Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." _______________________________________________ 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
