All of this talk recently abt special wavy lines implementation has
started me thinking about what would be necessary to make the Network
icons usable for generating the types of networking diagrams i use from
day to day with my work. Amongst these are:
1) Lightning that behaves as lightning does in other packages such as
visio, powerpoint. Lightning is used as a connector, which is essentially
a line style. It has points on both ends, and the ends can be dragged to
connection points at odd angles exactly as if it were a line. Its width
attribute is scalable, so that it can look narrow or thick.. ie:
Router
/ \
// \\
/ \\
Router \
Router-=_
===
-Router
So this really becomes also a kind of special line that should show up
under a specific panel. Can this be done with the existing custom object?
If not, perhaps it would be worthwhile to allow for a more generalized
customization of line-like connectors through the custom object as i
expect things like this will probably recur.
2) If (1) cannot be accomplished with the current custom code for the
moment, i'm fairly certain it can be done the old way (ala ethernet bus in
the network panel), but is there a way to mix the old method with the
custom method of defining shapes within the same subpanel? I'm not clear
on how this would be done. I want to start adding networking icons that
are actually practical for designing routed and switched enterprise
networks, but would of course prefer to do these as custom shapes from now
on..
Thanks for helping me understand this...
dc
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Daniel Cohn, InterNAP
