Hi... I'm drawing some network diagrams with dia. I would like to automatically color the different objects on the diagram, depending on what is working, what is semi-working, what is working, etc.....
I have a way of doing that. Currently I have an external program, that overlays its own lines on the .png / .jpg image exported from Dia. However. If I change the dia file, move an object... I will have to re-position all lines again, for the external program. So I took a look at the compressed .dia file. It is a list of XML objects, and for some objects I could see a comment from the user. So I thought: What about the standard line-like objects? line, bezier-line, zig-zag line, etc... Could they have a user defined comment inside them? The current set of line-objects does not. If there were a user defineable comment area, one could do something like: "find the xml section defining this object, based on the user-defined comment, change the color attribute, save file again, run dia from command line, to export to .jpg / .png again, and voila!" (run on a copy of the master .dia file, of course, so as not to mess things up, *if* things go bad.) So my question is: 1) Why do the standard objects not have a user-defineable comment field? Will they have such a field soon? 2) Is there a line-(like-)objects somewhere, that I could install in Dia, works the same as the standard line-like objects, but has a user defined comment field? If so, where can I get it? Regards, -- EinarI _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
