Greetings, Dan Katz!
> so I'm exploring creating custom shapes, and I have a question about how to
> create center connection points that act the same as for the built-in
> shapes like rectangle, ellipse, etc.
<connections>
<point x="0" y="0" main="yes"/>
</connections>
> center of a built-in rectangle to a built-in circle, the line
> auto-magically moves out to the edges of the rectangle and circle
Only for straight lines, unfortunately :/
The arc will still have it's anchor point at the center, disrupting shape
movements often, unless you force the arc to background.
> (including arrow tips) and follows along the edges as the relative
> locations of the two objects changes. Is there a way to make the center
> point of my custom shape similarly "edge aware"?
> Thanks
> Dan
> P.S. I'm pretty sure that "edge aware center point" is not the right name
> for this functionality. If you can tell me what it's really called, I'd be
> much obliged...
> P.P.S. Sorry if this is a FAQ. I did read the project FAQ and search the
> archives of this list, but I didn't find anything quite on point.
Unfortunately, it's not mentioned in FAQ, or documentation...
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin ([email protected]) 01.12.2011, <03:27>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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