On 26 Jan, Rob Saunders wrote:
> Dear All
>
> It's been a while since I last played with Dia and I'm really pleased to
> see all the hard work that's been going into it recently, the release of
> v0.30 is great. Layers are a great addition and I'm really looking
> forward to having a good look at what can be done with them. Hopefully
> I'll be able to find the time in the next week or so to update my
> package of simple block diagram objects to the new version so that
> another package can be added to the default palette.
Yeah, that would be nice.
> One question: Alex, I see that Dia now renders objects with an
> "ObjectRenderer" function. Is the only reason for this to allow objects
> in the current layer to be drawn differently from the remainder of
> objects or do you have a greater plan for the object renderer function?
This was the reason i added it. So i could reuse the code from all
rendering places. It might be usable for other stuff. I have not
thought about it.
> I'm just try to get a feel for how the layer rendering works. As you
> know I'm interested in "computational layers" and I'm wondering how best
> they should be added.
Yeah i know. Any progress?
> I've just e-mail Miguel for a Gnome CVS account so hopefully I should be
> able to contribute through the joys of CVS soon.
Miguel is nice, he's usually quick with stuff like that.
/ Alex
