Steffen, I have thought of the grouping, but if you want to toggle notes/descriptions on and off that requires layering. You can't group things on different layers...can you?
My solution is to keep notes that are not for public consumption on a layer separate from the diagram entities. I do have to remember to delete the notes when I delete the entity as Carl mentioned, and they don't move around the diagram, if I move the entity. For my purposes notations on a drawn entity or group has taken the form of purchasing notes on electrical components. Or design explanations. In a functional block diagram the notes give me a deeper level of detail that is turned on occasionally. I suppose I would really like to make "visibility toggle-able notes" as an attribute of a group more often than of a singular entity or shape. Perhaps that would even be easier to implement...Add the notation attribute to the group, not the shape. Then if you need to annotate a shape you group it first. This would not require any retro tweaking of shapes. I second Carl, I would like an attribute for notes. Notes that can be moved around the entity and be toggled visibly on/off. This would be very handy. But yes, there are workarounds. I would make the addition myself if I knew how. Mike On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Steffen Macke <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Carl, > > >> This should be possible e.g. through the XSLT plugin. Are you using > >> Dia on Windows? > > > > Linux > > Then the XSLT export should work :-) > > > Well, I was hoping the descriptions would be part of the object being > > described. So when I delete the object, I don't have an orphaned > > description, and if I copy the object, I now have 2 items with that > > description. > > Agreed. Did you try grouping your object and the description? > Just keep them grouped. If you delete the object, you also delete the > description > and your exported list stays up to date. > > Do you know XSLT? Otherwise you could send me a sample Diagram and I would > try to create the XSLT for you. > > Regards, > > Steffen > _______________________________________________ > 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 E. Ross ArcAngle Design | MX Automation ================================= Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering Machine & Product Design - SolidWorks Data Acquisition & Control - LabVIEW Finite Element Analysis - Cosmos 217 Valley Creek Drive Clayton, NC 27520 (919) 631-1451 (919) 550-2430 [email protected] ==============================
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