On Monday, May 20, 2019 04:42:48 PM Zander Brown wrote: > Personally I'm on-board with this kinda bodge-job, esp if it makes use > of dia! I mean with all the other outstanding work I'm not going to > rush to implement stuff that makes this easier but I do kinda like it > > Protractor/Ruler is a pretty neat idea though which could be > interesting and "measure" has been requested in the past, definitely > worth investigating at some point
By googling I found several things that were essentially "virtual protractors" -- here are two I put in my "notebook". Note that the first does not display an image of a protractor (and may only measure angles from the vertical, which may mean that you have to measure two angles and find the difference. The second displays an image of a protractor. There are others, some that only work in specific applications (e.g., in the Chrome browser): * [[http://osprotractor.sourceforge.net/Protractor.html][Simple on-screen protractror.]]--afaict, it doesn't show an image of a protractor, iiuc, you just define some points / lines and then you get the angle, it needs Java, at least JRE 1.7. ` On-Screen Protractor is a simple java application that allows to measure an angle on the screen. Originally the program was conceived to assess the angle between north and a given point on any map open on the screen, therefore the background of the application window is transparent and the angle is measured from the positive y-axis and clockwise. The application allows to move the origin of reference axes and to rotate the axes as needed. ' * [[http://redbridgeserc.org/resources/entry/virtual-protractor][Virtual protractor]] -- this one shows an image (iiuc), not sure of software requirements _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
