That's my interest in Dia as well. I'm hoping to create a "Derwin"
plug-in to achieve the functionality of ER-Win, including auto schema
generation. The existing ER stuff is very true to the model in
C. J. Date's book, but ER-Win has a notation which is not so
cluttered.
The problem is, of course, time.
In the interim period, I'm "stealing" symbols from the UML section, so
that I can annotate the entities.
I've never coded GNOME, or GTK+ stuff before; how difficult would it
be to add the "text" of a custom object (objects/custom/*.[ch])?
It would be very handy, I think. It looks trivial to do for someone
who is familiar with this. Is there a reason not to?
Nice job!
> I've just started using Dia. I like it. It did segmentation fault
> on me a few times so I'll have to see whats causing that - mostly
> when I try to enable the anti aliasing checkbox.
> I'm interested in using it for mostly database design using the ER
> symbols. Its looking good. I hope that the participates symbol can
> be improved to support adding the symbols for optional and mandatory
> single and multiple participation between the relationships and the
> entities. Maybe there is already a way to do it and I'm just not
> seeing it?cl
> I like the GIMP style with layering even! Very nice.
>
> --
> Robert B. Easter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
-Erik
Erik Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
