On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Alexander Larsson uttered the following: > On 21 Jan, Lars Clausen wrote: >> So you'd have to manually add the arrows on each line? Or should this >> be part of the options box (both default and individual) for lines? > It would be part of the line properties dialog. Well, that makes some sense. There must be some cut-off point between things that are general enough to make a new widget in the tool box (color certainly, line width is used by all but text, so would line style be, arrows would not be used by box or ellipse either). >>> splines >> I've started working on it (copying from orth_conn). Now I don't know >> the first thing about bezier (so I'm very happy the drawing function is >> there:). I notice that you require 4+3n points, is that because of the >> specific method you use? Xfig has two splines with no such limit (at >> least not visibly). But I guess I have to dig into it to figure out a >> bounding box. > Beziers are a bit different than splines, but there is a linear > mapping between them. Try to search on the net or read some graphics > book. I will. >> Except for picture inclusion, I think dia is more usable than xfig for >> this. But this is a low-priority thing. Just having multiline text >> removes a lot of bother. > > Picture inclusion is anothen feature not done... Do you have plans on how to do this? Imlib or something else? >> It's fun connecting lines at their midpoints and moving them around. >> Looks almost 3D:) > > Yeah, i added that mostly to test the convergence of the connection > updates, but it looks quite cool. I see now that my idea of being able to add/remove connection points isn't gonna be trivial, since they are midpoints and the amount is hardcoded in several cases. So I'll let that rest for a while. -Lars -- Lars R. Clausen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A *real* smart bomb would call in sick, perhaps move to another country, changing its name in the process, open a beach bar maybe and live out its days in safe anonymity. -- Barry O'Neill in rhod
