Thank you very much, I will check bugzulla out, I didn't even know about
it. I thought it is only for Mozilla, but I will definitively do some
research on it. Thank you for pointing out a good direction.

Bao
On Oct 1, 2013 7:41 AM, "Michael Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Bao Niu,
>
> It is this way sometimes with open source.  It happens most often when
> there is a clear workaround.
>
> I don't understand your problem, in part because I am not involved with
> the programmatic use of Dia ever.  You may want to make a formal case in an
> attempt to persuade a developer to undertake this.  FIrst step is to enter
> it in in the Bugzilla system I think.  Then it get tracked and seen,
> whereas a message here is soon just an old message.
>
> I think that there is a common method for analyzing whether to make
> changes.  If you work this out up front, you save the developer from
> working out the details completely.
>
> Can you think of any reason why the "problem" may be an advantage in other
> situations?
> What are the advantages?  Do they extend to other uses?  (Shapes other
> than Database Table?)
> WIll there be a significant benefit for others beside yourself?  Can you
> elaborate on this?  If it is not already in Bugzilla, then you may be the
> first to have found the need.
> Provide a Dia that shows the issue, in order to save developer time and
> possibly error reproducing it.
>
> Sorry I cannot help you myself,
>
> m
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Bao Niu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This problem doesn't seem to get any attention:(
>> It's real and I can't figure out what cause it could be, could someone
>> please help take a look at it? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Bao Niu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Problem: I have a "Database -- Table" on screen, and then added a
>>> "Standard - BezierLine" connecting to one of the table's connection point.
>>> Now I want to delete that line and make the table's connection point
>>> pt.connected fresh.
>>> I use python's API to disconnect this two objects programmatically. When
>>> using layer.remove(BezierLine), and then update_connections(table), the
>>> connection is still there. If you type connection_pt.connected, you can see
>>> that "Standard - BezierLine" object is still in the returned tuple.
>>> This is very weird.
>>>
>>> The only way I can disconnect the two seems to be manually delete
>>> the BezierLine from the screen. There is no way to do this programmatically.
>>>
>>> Could anybody give some advice? Many thanks.
>>>
>>
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