What you are describing is guides (see gimp-1.1.x or corel draw for examples of guides). They are very useful, and it would be nice to have support for them in dia. Maybe we could swipe some of the code from gimp. James. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/ On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Stefan Seefeld wrote: > hi there, > > I'm using dia for writing UML diagrams and I'd like to propose > some little enhancements: > > It would be nice to be able to snap control points of objects not > only to the grid but to arbitrary other objects as well. Take as > an example multiple lifelines. Imagine that I want them to start > at the same hight. Having seen my girl friend (a graphics designer) > at work I'd like to be able to insert some temporary horizontal > line object at an arbitrary position and snap all lifelines to it. > Once this is done, the temporary line can be removed. > In fact, this idea could be extended to arbitrary alignments so > that one can align not only to curves but to intersction points etc. > > There is a nice postscript drawing editor which has similar features: > IPE (http://www.cs.ust.hk/~otfried/Ipe/) > > Best regards, Stefan > > _______________________________________________________ > > Stefan Seefeld > Departement de Physique > Universite de Montreal > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________________ > > ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... >
