On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Today is Dia's 1 year birthday. The oldest mail in my Dia mailbox is from
> April 28 1998. Actually it might be a week or two older than that, but
> thats the only date i have.
Congratulations! Where's the beer?
> Now i feel quite satisfied with Dia's architecture. There are only one
> real thing that i would like it to have before it could be called 1.0
Really? I have a wish list as long as a bad year... the foremost items
being bezier curves, shift-drag, adding/removing control points, resizing,
and setting attributes of multiple objects at the same time.
> (except fine-tuning, various features and new objects), and that is UNDO
> capabilities. This would need quite a lot of changes, as all
> modifications of diagrams need to pass thorough a central point, and the
> modification, with data needed to revert them, needs to be stored on a
> stack. This is quite hard, and might lead to changes in the object
> system. I haven't though much about this, as i haven't done this before,
> and it's quite a lot of work... We'll see if we can do it...
An interesting problem.
> At the moment i don't work much on Dia. Almost nothing in fact. If it
> weren't for people like Alejandro, Lars and other contributors there
> would be no updates at all. My inspiration and coding efficiency varies a
> lot over time, and right now i don't seem to be able to find any energy
> to do stuff. I hope i'll do better soon, but i count on you guys till
> then!
By May 10, I will be done with finals (which is *way* early compared to
the end-of-June finals I'm used to), and hope to make a massive attack at
Dia.
And do not underestimate the need for some sanity check of all our
patches. You've being doing a good job keeping the thing consistent
despite my best efforts to the contrary:)
> Soo, you read this far eh? All my rambling and all. Thats no good, You
> should be coding cool new objects and features, not reading boring email!
>
> / Alex
>
> Ps. If we have any users that actually LIKE writing, they might wanna do
> some kind of user-documentation. Might be good for new users...
I do enjoy writing, but I'm not sure if I can write in the style that is
needed here.
-Lars
--
Lars R. Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause) H�rdgrim of Westfield
But unlike Boruvka's algorithm, we do not recompute leaders from scratch every
time we add an edge. Instead,... the two leaders duke it out in a nationally-
televised no-holds-barred steel-case grudge match. --Lecture Notes for CS373
