I've also found that, when overwriting the <dia:attribute> node
<dia:attribute name="meta">
<dia:composite type="dict">
</dia:attribute>
with, for example,
<dia:attribute name="meta">
<dia:composite type="dict">
<dia:attribute name="some-id">
<dia:string>#222#</dia:string>
</dia:attribute>
</dia:composite>
</dia:attribute>
for a "Flowchart - Manual Input", DIA hangs (I'm in Windows XP)
Regards
2009/12/14 Luis Villa <[email protected]>
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to use this technique to maintain a id. I got it right for
> "Flowchart - Box" items, but I couldn't use it in (for example) "UML -
> Actor". It seems it looses the <dia:attribute name="meta"> node. In other
> types as "Flowchart - Off Page Connector", the tree results in
>
>
> <dia:attribute name="meta">
> <dia:composite type="dict">
> </dia:attribute>
>
> after saving. Is this a bug?
>
> Thank you very much and, again, congratulations for your good work! :)
>
> Regards
>
> 2009/12/10 Luis Villa <[email protected]>
>
>
>>
>>> Is it possible to change Dia not to do this recalculation?
>>>>
>>>> Not without an extra layer of complexity I'd like to avoid. The main
>>> issue would be to ensure the uniqueness of such an id during copy, maybe
>>> even across different diagrams. Also there arise questions when to change
>>> the object id (if stored in a different diagram, on change of all object
>>> properties or only if it's name would change, etc. pp.)
>>>
>>> Without knowing your exact use case it might be possible for you to
>>> generate your own object id and store it as
>>>
>>> <dia:attribute name="meta">
>>> <dia:composite type="dict">
>>> <dia:attribute name="some-id">
>>> <dia:string>#123#</dia:string>
>>> </dia:attribute>
>>> </dia:composite>
>>> </dia:attribute>
>>>
>>> Of course that would also not solve the issues I mentioned above
>>> regarding uniqueness. The content of the 'dict' is not changed by Dia, there
>>> even is no user interface to do so at the moment.
>>>
>>> -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org -----------
>>> Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to
>>> get along without it. -- Dilbert
>>>
>>>
>> Hello Hans :)
>>
>> Yes, this xml block should do it. Regarding uniqueness I can manage it out
>> of dia. I'll simply preprocess the file everytime I read it.
>>
>> Thank you very much :)
>>
>
>
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