Hey thanks for posting that! This is actually quite useful for me. My current custom shape library is hacked from one of the default libraries (like flowchart or something) and I really need to move to something more sophisticated like a plugin, because at the very least I need web links.
(btw Hans and everyone: 0.97 is pretty fantastic, for some reason it seems much faster on my 'rather large' .xml/.dia files) (Apologies for not answering your question :)) -regards, -avi On 6/8/09 10:37 AM, "Adam Chasen" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
