(Son, 23 Jan 2000) Alexandre Roger wrote:
> Is there a way to create your own shapes for Dia? If so, what is the
> format? And how do you integrate the shapes in the toolbar? I think that
> extensibility of the shape catalog should be very important. The mor
> shapes, the mor uses to the program.
It's possible. See doc/custum-shapes in the source tarball fo a short
description. I'm working on a "Building shapes tutorial" but this
needs some weeks.
The normal dia installation has two directories in $prefix/share/dia
($prefix=/usr or /usr/local):
shapes: descriptions for the shapes
sheets: descriptions for the sheets (pages of the notebook
in the main window)
Start there, especially the Circuit sheet/shapes are easy to
understand. :-)
> I know I would probably end up
> drawing some network shapes if I could.
>
There is already a NetExtra package out. Currently it includes 7
shapes (router, switches, network clouds ...). Look at
http://dynamik.fb10.tu-berlin.de/~morawski (see et cetera)
Untar the tarball in your ~/.dia directory.
You are welcome to contribute your own shapes.
What shapes are you missing?
> If adding shapes is possible, I would recommend opening a section on
> Dia's page for user-contributed shapes.
Yes, a really good idea!
Regards, Jens
