On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Data wrote:
> I LOVE this program. Hence I have a few suggestions.
woo.
> 1. I think it would be awfully cool if polygons had what I'll call 'sticky
> sides'. Right now, you can only attach connection points to other
> connection points; what if you could attach an arrow-head to the side
> of a rectangle, for example, and have that stick just as if it were
> attached to a connection point?
> Reason being is that I'm often finding myself doing drawings where
> I want two (or more) line-ends stuck to the side of a box; but a box
> only has one connection point on its side, and that's in the middle.
> Another possibility would be movable or even addable connection points.
> Pick up a connection point from the toolbox and drag it onto the side of
> a rectangle, for example. Maybe not so easy to code though :)
this is somethig that always frustrated me abt visio.. i support the idea,
but have no idea how it will be added to the codebase.. i'll leave that
for others to answer.
> 8. The line thickness and arrow selectors on the toolbox are quite nice.
> Could they be made to affect existing objects, instead of just newly
> created ones?
I have been working on support for this for a while, and have it mostly
working on a pre-undo version.. i havent had a chance to check out the
code since its been clean ;), so i'll try to do that in the next few days
and submit the new diffs.
dc
