Thank you for the direction. I discovered http://people.defora.org/~khorben/papers/dia/dia_plugins.html when searching for that call you mentioned which helped explain a lot of this. I have never used the complex objects, but the possibilities are very cool.
The last question is that I would like to make the charts visually consistent by creating a "standard" size of components. I have tried making shapes like rectangles in .shape files so that I can use smaller fonts that do not modify the width of object, but the objects always show up as squares when initially added. Is there any way to prevent this auto width-scaling? Thanks, Adam On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Hans Breuer<[email protected]> wrote: > At 03.06.2009 22:12, Adam Chasen wrote: >> >> Specifically, with the link between sheet files and shapes, the >> Flowchart sheet refers to a Box which is a programmed diaObject, but I >> cannot see in the sheet file or the shapes dir how Dia knows that it >> should be the programmed diaObject. >> > I don't know why it matters with the original question, but here it goes: > > Dia application loads an "programmed object" plug-in > Plug-in registers the object types, see object_register_type() > Dia application builds the sheets view. > > To use the programmed objects programatically the sheets are not needed. > > -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- > Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to > get along without it. -- Dilbert > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
