Re: Features

2020-08-08 Thread Hans Breuer
> Am 08.08.2020 um 10:33 schrieb Zander Brown : > > Hey Emmanuel > > Some interesting ideas > > Must admit (1) was already something I'd thought of, unfortunately with the > current architecture it's not > actually that simple to do > Did it change already? IIRC Find was working for quite

Re: Do you have a diagram of DIA itself for me to study

2020-06-07 Thread Hans Breuer
> Am 06.06.2020 um 15:46 schrieb Asad Chaudhry via dia-list > : > > Do you have a diagram of DIA itself for me to study See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/tree/master/samples/Self HTH,

Re: GTK difference git and 0.97.3 release

2017-01-09 Thread Hans Breuer
> Am 09.01.2017 um 00:19 schrieb myken : > > Hello List, > > Sorry for the cryptic subject. > I have been trying to recompile dia from git but I get a real big difference > in the dialog/properties windows (e.g table from the database sheet) between > the git-compiled and the

Re: Dia DTD's location? (And some related ramblings.)

2016-02-15 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Andrey, > Am 15.02.2016 um 08:13 schrieb Andrey Repin : > > Greetings, All! > > I've been toying around with XML parsing, and I've used Dia shape as a guinea > pig. This gave me some ideas, but first, a question: > Where's the Dia DTD's are located nowadays?

Re: DIA extend properties

2015-04-04 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 01.04.2015 um 19:21 schrieb Yosua Alvin Adi Soetrisno: Let me introduce myself I'm Yosua from Gadjah Mada University, I'm still on progress working my master thesis. I'd like to develop OpenERP module based on DIA OpenERP Interface. After some googling I still don't know what Dia OpenERP

Re: dia-list Digest, Vol 131, Issue 5

2015-04-03 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 25.03.2015 um 00:21 schrieb Elijah Wagers: Remove from list please. Done. Good bye, Hans Hans at Breuer dot Org --- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.-- Dilbert ___

Adding a Python dependency to app/* (was: Re: dia-list Digest, Vol 132, Issue 2)

2015-04-03 Thread Hans Breuer
First of all: please try to be specific in the subject line as proposed in the digest mail you got and cited: On Apr 3, 2015 7:00 PM, dia-list-requ...@gnome.org mailto:dia-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re:

Re: svg:transform rotate

2015-03-16 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 16.03.2015 um 03:07 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Hans Breuer! But with master you can load the respective SVG and export it as shape to get the desired effect (see attachement). I've got around it by using svg:path. However, the z command is not executed correctly, leaving a visual gap

Re: svg:transform rotate

2015-03-15 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 15.03.2015 um 16:13 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, All! Remind me please, do Dia support rotate() transformation in shape definitions? No it does not. And I shall update the documentation [1] and dtd [2] if it will do. What I'm trying to achieve is basically this: But with master you

Rotation support (was: Re: DIA function)

2015-03-12 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 06.03.2015 um 09:57 schrieb T.Tetzner: Hello to all, I work for several weeks with DIA and I pretty much love it. Mainly I create PID s. There is only one feature I really miss: The possibility to turn/spin elements and text in angle you need. Object rotation is a long-time requested feature

Re: Dia für Yosemite

2015-01-30 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 30.01.2015 um 21:06 schrieb Tomas Pospisek: Am 29.01.2015 um 06:50 schrieb Erich Cerny: Benötige DIA für Mac OS 10.10.2 Erster Treffer, wenn ich im Internet (ddg) nach dia drawing mac suche. In english: first hit when I search the internet (ddg) for dia drawing mac. *t With the keywords

Re: Sozi integration

2015-01-25 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 23.01.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Paul Chavent: On 01/22/2015 09:19 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Am 18.01.2015 um 22:36 schrieb Paul Chavent: [...] 3) the hardcoded SOZI_PATH wont work with free installation path I've tested with the configure option --with-sozi-path= pointing to a path that contains

Re: Sozi integration

2015-01-22 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 18.01.2015 um 22:36 schrieb Paul Chavent: [...] OK, but the stuff within defined(SOZI_PATH) should be revisited for three reasons: 1) if all external files would be missing there will be four message_error() Not sure. The loop breaks upon first failure. You are right, I've should have read

Re: [import Network file configurations]

2015-01-22 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 19.01.2015 um 12:18 schrieb Dominique Charny: HI, everybody Our aim is(was) to import Network file configurations ( nodes vertices) to be able to - draw in Dia the Network - re-arrange even manually layout - add eventual Python scripting to proceed analysis and redrawing First attempts

Re: Sozi integration

2015-01-16 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 15.01.2015 um 23:44 schrieb Paul Chavent: On 01/14/2015 09:40 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: [...] Please reconsider the importance of the message first. IMHO dumping random stuff to the console is almost never a good idea. The message should be less verbose now. OK, but the stuff within defined

Re: Sozi integration

2015-01-10 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Paul, Am 10.01.2015 um 00:09 schrieb Paul Chavent: On 01/08/2015 11:24 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Am 05.01.2015 um 15:47 schrieb Paul Chavent: [...] The media allows to insert video/audio in a presentation. I haven't extensively tested this object yet. Me neither. If it does not work out

Re: dia-installer.de / Steffen Macke

2015-01-10 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 05.01.2015 um 23:27 schrieb Alejandro Imass: [...] If you don't find the sources not to worry. Maybe Steffen maintained in a git repo somewhere. If you can find them better, If not, that doesn't matter either. I'm sure I can reproduce the installer image from any recent DMG file. The

Re: Sozi integration

2015-01-10 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 10.01.2015 um 22:17 schrieb Paul Chavent: On 01/10/2015 03:50 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: As I said I'm fine with pushing what we currently have. It is probably more simple to improve from that common base. Any objections? So, i suggest to submit patches that fix the bounding box issue

Re: Sozi integration

2015-01-08 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Paul, Am 05.01.2015 um 15:47 schrieb Paul Chavent: Hi Following this old thread (http://marc.info/?t=13120999131r=1w=4), I would like to re-submit a patch that brings Sozi (http://sozi.baierouge.fr/wiki/en:welcome) to Dia. [...] The patch adds a Sozi sheet with Frame and Media objects.

Re: Dia will not load on MacOS X yosemite 10.10

2014-12-01 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 01.12.2014 um 19:05 schrieb Alejandro Imass: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Duane King duane.k...@duanefking.com wrote: [...] How do I fix this so I can get some work done today? Use MacPorts or Home brew and forget about binary distributions of Open Source in general. Especially if

Re: Dia

2014-11-28 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Edwin, Am 25.11.2014 um 10:42 schrieb Eelman, Edwin (231439): hi I use the program dia for school, most of the time its in the mode for Grafcet diagrams. i would like to help improve the program. Welcome to Dia development. The first thing you should do to participate in discussions about

Re: background of DIA diagram

2014-11-16 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 16.11.2014 um 11:26 schrieb Vedran Vucic: Hello, I found how can I change color of DIA diagram background. But, how to make it transparent? As Michael and Thomas already said transparency kind of depends on the context. If you want to look through your diagram window to your desktop

Re: Dia 0.97 Bug : Dash lenth in prinout.

2014-11-16 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 07.11.2014 um 10:04 schrieb Andreas Möller: Hello I don't have an account for BugZillar. I found a bug similar to bug 172192 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172192 The fix to that bug was released in 2006 with Dia 0.95. My Software: Operating System Windows 7 64bit DIAw.exe

Re: copy diagram

2014-11-16 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 03.11.2014 um 23:41 schrieb Sheehan, John T: Hi folks, I am using copy diagram feature and only getting about 75% of my diagram in the resulting clipped image. Is there a way to set extents to encapsulate the entire diagram when copying diagram to clip board? The workaround I was using was

Re: Advanced options for custom shapes

2014-11-04 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 04.11.2014 um 07:42 schrieb Nico Rikken: On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 23:57 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote: As I said (or tried to say) neither the specification nor the implementations is available yet. But I could still make it work by writing objects in code for upstream adoption, rather than just

Re: Group resizing isses

2014-11-03 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 02.11.2014 um 21:28 schrieb George Georgalis: Hi Hans, I've not had any additional group resize problems. The build from today seems just fine too, my patched build script is attached. Your attachement assume everyone wants to build Dia on Linux to /usr/local which for me certainly is not

Re: Advanced options for custom shapes

2014-11-03 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 03.11.2014 um 21:03 schrieb Nico Rikken: Dear Hans Breuer, Thanks for your reply. This would require some extension to the custom shape specification [1] and the custom shape module [2]. A simple solution could be to define an enum with the shape and use that for conditional rendering

Re: Advanced options for custom shapes

2014-11-02 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 01.11.2014 um 09:54 schrieb Nico Rikken: Dear Dia users and contributors, I spend some bits of my time working on a sheet of power system symbols. The supplied electrical sheets ('Electric 2') fall short on this topic, and since I like using Dia, I thought I should make this contribution for

Re: Dia [Mathcad, Copy and Paste]

2014-11-02 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi John, to discuss matters of Dia it is best to subscribe to the dia mailing list. Otherwise your message might stay in the moderator queue for quite some while. Am 27.10.2014 um 23:47 schrieb Sheehan, John T: Hi folks, my name is John Sheehan and I am a software developer. Tim (cc'ed here)

Re: I love this tool but want to know if there is going to be another update?

2014-11-02 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 10.10.2014 um 01:23 schrieb Michael Lam: Hi Dia team! You guys have done a wonderful job just making it really simple. The last version was several years ago updated. Not really, see: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2014-September/msg7.html Do have an update when this will

Re: How to create new shapes in Dia?

2014-11-02 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 07.10.2014 um 08:43 schrieb Balázs Tőgyi: Hi! This is Bali, from Hungary. I would like to create a diagram about a heating system with some special item. Could you please explain what is the process to create new shapes and integrate them into Dia? See:

Re: Text wrapping

2014-11-02 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 23.09.2014 um 10:03 schrieb Walter De Paris: Hi all, is it possible to avoid an object to change the size when a text is entered? Thank you for your help! Walter Yes, if you switch to the current development version and set Text fitting: Never There is no automatic wrapping or

Group resizing isses (was: crash with my patch...)

2014-09-26 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 23.09.2014 um 05:44 schrieb George Georgalis: Hi - I've been happy with my patch to increase size of object handles and connection points. However, I discovered if I group two objects then grab a resize handle, the grouping disappears. If I then select all and zoom to fit, crash. Probaly

Re: custom shapes fail to parse

2014-09-26 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 26.09.2014 um 22:20 schrieb Amit Kucheria: Hi, I saved the UML class shape with a custome name rtapp-thread in order to try and customise the shape by adding it to my own sheet. But dia fails to parse back the shape in question. Which version? I've tried current master and Dia 0.97.3 branch

Re: Provide a python script to dia on the command line

2014-09-22 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Martin, Am 16.09.2014 um 11:34 schrieb Martin Metzker: Hello list! I think I have a viable patch now, for command line provided python scripts in dia. Going over the changes: ... moved the definition of struct _PluginInfo from lib/plug-ins.c to lib/plug-ins.h, because I need this struct in

Re: Provide a python script to dia on the command line

2014-09-11 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Martin, Am 11.09.2014 um 12:55 schrieb Martin Metzker: [...] I can dia -i foo.py to make dia execute foo.py. The script is executed _after_ all modules have been loaded, right before handle_all_diagrams() is called. (This allows using dia's python capabilities to modify diagrams right before

Building Dia (was: Fwd: little problem)

2014-09-11 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 11.09.2014 um 19:21 schrieb George Georgalis: resending without strace output... build is successful but the binary fails... Reading your log and modification I woudn't say the build was successful. The main problem seems to be that you are using an outdated source package of Dia. But see

Re: how do I set a default line width

2014-09-11 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 10.09.2014 um 16:52 schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: On Wed, Sep 10 2014, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was able to set a default pointsize by double clicking the T button. When I tried this for the line button, I see that I can only change the absolute start/end gap. This is by design. Properties

Re: little problem

2014-09-09 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 09.09.2014 um 22:02 schrieb George Georgalis: [...] If a developer could send me a patch or point me to the obvious, I'd be happy to build my own binary? https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/app/handle_ops.c#n24 Aside, the other usability issue I found is inability to copy text. I use

Re: How to install Dia python plugins on Ubuntu

2014-08-31 Thread Hans Breuer
Firmansyah, please keep this conversation on the dia-mailing list. I wont answer another mail sent to me privately. Am 31.08.2014 um 01:35 schrieb Firmansyah Nazar firman...@outlook.com: Hi Hans, Thank you for your answer. I will try to be more specific. I am running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS

Re: remove from mailing list.

2014-08-31 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 31.08.2014 um 13:10 schrieb oliver tatlow: hi there. please can I be taken off the dia mailing list. Sure, done. Hans at Breuer dot Org --- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.-- Dilbert

Re: How to install Dia python plugins on Ubuntu

2014-08-30 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 29.08.2014 um 10:25 schrieb Firmansyah Nazar: Dear all, I am having difficulties on installing Dia python plugin on Ubuntu. Can anyone help ? Last time I've checked the Python plug-in was part of the default Dia installation on Ubuntu 14.04. You can verify it's available under

Re: Print from command line

2014-08-14 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 14.08.2014 um 00:43 schrieb Martin Metzker: Hello! I would like to run dia from the command line and have it print the diagram provided as command line argument. I found an old post form 2010 [1], which describes an acceptable method for having dia run python scripts on startup

Re: Problem with Ruler

2014-08-10 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 08.08.2014 um 11:20 schrieb Anton Zoettl: I have set the pagesize to A4 (21 cm x 29,7 cm) However the ruler does show me a quite different size. So you have changed the scaling of the diagram. The ruler shows the virtual centimeters of the diagram objects. The size of the printout is

Re: Do C Language plugins need to be compiled with Dia?

2014-08-10 Thread Hans Breuer
Am 30.07.2014 um 11:47 schrieb dunn: I know I'm causing a flurry of messages all at once, but I was wondering if a user makes a C Language plugin instead of Python, does it have to be compiled with the program, or does Dia find a library (and perhaps an XML file) in a folder and use it? The

Re: problem with opening a file

2014-07-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 07.07.2014 16:56, Ирина Тетеревкова wrote: Hi! I have a problem with Dia sofware. When i want to open svg file, Dia says: PyDia Error (../../../plug-ins/python/diamodule.c:295): type 'exceptions.NotImplementedError'NotImplementedError('Unknown unit Q',)Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: Dia pdf export problem (windows)

2014-07-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 03.06.2014 17:42, Bastian Beekes wrote: Hi everyone, I have created some flowcharts in Dia (dia 0.97.2 - Windows 7 64 bit). Now I want to export them to pdf. This is working alright if I use File Page Setup Fit to... Problem is, Diagrams with different sizes all get zoomed differently. My

Re: Margins for A4 sheet

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10.06.2014 12:35, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 06/10/2014 12:29 PM, Dumitru Ursu wrote: Hello, I'm having some problems seeing/setting the margins for a A4 page; I've set up from preferences to color the A4 area with a light blue, but the whole canvas is painted; When I export to PDF I get a

Diagram defaults? (was: Re: Margins for A4 sheet)

2014-06-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.06.2014 11:39, Chris Green wrote: [...] But it's *not* seamlessly scalable because the individual components (of *any* of the types of objects that come with it) don't scale as well as the diagram as a whole. They will scale plus/minus a factor of two or so but beyond that they really

Re: Loses diagram when I zoom in

2014-05-19 Thread Hans Breuer
At 19.05.2014 12:29, Chris Green wrote: [...] How odd, it appears to be a quirk of this particular diagram on my system only. As I said other previously saved diagrams are fine still. Yes, but some related information is still saved with the file. Found by just opening the file with an editor

Re: Embedded Diagrams

2014-05-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 08.05.2014 05:34, Nick Bright wrote: Greetings, I have been searching the documentation, but have not found any indication if this is possible: Is there a way to embed futher dia files within a diagram? Not with a released version. But with the development there is Diagram As Object

Re: Adding comments to an object

2014-04-22 Thread Hans Breuer
At 22.04.2014 04:01, Ken Springer wrote: [...] So you could use the UML - Class object in Dia as your box with just a simple string (the class name). Switch off Attributes visible and Operations visible, to get rid of the two additional areas. And this is all more than I understand. LOL

Re: Adding comments to an object

2014-04-21 Thread Hans Breuer
At 21.04.2014 17:28, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 04/21/2014 06:16 PM, Ken Springer wrote: I'm creating an organizational chart structure of information. If I choose to, I want to be able to click on an object, in this case a rectangle, and have another box, or window, open somewhere that gives me

Re: Diagram tree not showing on Ubuntu 13.10, Dia 0.97.2

2014-04-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 09.04.2014 19:02, Arne Halvorsen wrote: I have installed both Dia and Dia-gnome, and the diagram tree is not showing. I *think* that was the state of affairs on the previous Ubuntu too. Ubuntu is known to add improvements which make Dia look bad [1]. But I don't think this is the main

Re: Developing a Test-taking environment feasibility question

2014-04-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 17.04.2014 20:27, Ryan Baxter wrote: Hi, I am an academic interested in developing a test-taking environment for my students who are creating process flowcharts. I am wondering if using Python to develop the appropriate add-ins if it would be feasible to accomplish this or perhaps some

Re: Inserting data from Word in to Dial Portable

2014-04-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 03.04.2014 16:03, Vanessa Carli Bones wrote: Good morning, I recently downloaded Dial Portable and I am now reading about it and starting to build a decision tree. I would like to know if and, if yes, how can I create a decision tree from a list of data hierarchically organized in Word

Re: Library and arrows

2014-04-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.04.2014 18:09, Michael Ross wrote: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Subtilt i...@subtilt.be wrote: [...] Is it possible to make a personnal library of .png? You mean for inserting as pictures? Of course you can curate whatever you like - so I am probably misunderstanding the question.

Re: Upcoming Dia 0.97.3 bug-fix-only

2014-03-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10.03.2014 09:11, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 03/08/2014 05:04 AM, Hans Breuer wrote: [...] Just something I noticed: if page scale is set to a small value, like 20, export will be very small, to the point of being pixelized. I usually set page scale to Fit 1x1. If there is a lot

Re: Upcoming Dia 0.97.3 bug-fix-only

2014-03-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 08.03.2014 23:44, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 03/08/2014 03:04 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Some more fixes from master just got cherry-picked to the dia-0-97 branch. Before I do another bug fix only release from that branch I would like to get some feedback from you. The list of fixed bugs

Bug 721851 (was Re: Upcoming Dia 0.97.3 bug-fix-only)

2014-03-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10.03.2014 21:28, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 03/10/2014 10:17 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: At 08.03.2014 23:44, Dumitru Ursu wrote: [...] *721851* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721851 - not fixed. Shoud have changed the title to Commandline export not working for pixbuf (with X11

VDX Import bug (was Re: Upcoming Dia 0.97.3 bug-fix-only)

2014-03-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10.03.2014 21:34, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 03/10/2014 10:28 PM, Dumitru Ursu wrote: Microsoft® Visio® 2010 Step by Step Practice Files http://examples.oreilly.com/9780735648876-files/ - Visio import doesn't work with these files. (it complains about a tag) /home/dimon/HR Process

Re: Events in Dia

2014-03-02 Thread Hans Breuer
At 28.02.2014 20:53, Bernard Cohen wrote: I wrote an large extension to Visio in VBA in which the code is triggered by events, such as placing an object or connecting a line to a connector, and by custom menu items. I'd like to transport it to Dia/Python but can find no documentation on the

Re: How to integrate an image permanently

2014-03-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 25.02.2014 02:46, Denis Arsenault wrote: How to integrate an image permanently, not linked to an external file? I mean, an permanent image, so the image copy will be resident inside the Dia diagram. With the development version you get this automatically when pasting the image into Dia.

Re: I wanted to know when is the next release? or is this no longer supported

2014-02-28 Thread Hans Breuer
At 26.02.2014 20:22, Michael Lam wrote: I really enjoy your product. Is there going to be another release after 0.97.2? There is a bunch of interesting features already available with the development version. See: https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/NEWS What's currently missing are more

Re: Linux Redaht error message

2014-02-25 Thread Hans Breuer
At 25.02.2014 12:28, Emanuele Ragnoli wrote: I get this error message when starting DIA after a Linux Redhat installation: Could not find plugin init function in `/usr/local/lib/dia/ libxslt_filter.la' This error is shown when Dia is compiled without XSLT support. As such it should be

Re: Dia: Bezierline segment addition?

2014-02-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 15.02.2014 01:53, Peter Hodges wrote: Does any way exist to get to the add segment drop down menu on a Mac with a single button mouse. I've tried all combinations of control, option, and command with clicking on the bezierline. I don't find the menu with add segment entry. Not Dia specific

Re: Text rendering bug test (was Re: More features)

2014-02-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.02.2014 02:28, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 02/01/2014 02:14 PM, Octavio Alvarez wrote: * Considering that the only difference between cairo-pdf and cairo-alpha-png is the cairo_*_surface_create() call and that cairosimple also renders to a PNG file, I considered cairosimple should failed

Re: Dia 0.97.2 for Windows - moved all objects to different layer. saved - ruined my connections!

2014-02-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.02.2014 11:39, Dmitry Sutyagin wrote: Hi all, I had objects and linking lines in the same layer. Then I decided to move objects to another layer and keep lines where they are. I did this, checking if this breaks connections - it did not (did not yet save). I moved every object to another

Re: More features

2014-02-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.02.2014 19:30, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 01/31/2014 12:01 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: [...] So before considering a release I would be really useful to get feedback from people building and tesing Dia from master. Tested in master: Pango text rendering is broken again. I don't know if it's

Re: More features

2014-02-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.02.2014 20:04, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 02/01/2014 10:59 AM, Hans Breuer wrote: Tested in master: Pango text rendering is broken again. I don't know if it's Dia or Pango's fault. All letters of each word overlap in a single position. Works for me, so I'm expecting a Pango problem. What

Re: More features

2014-02-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.02.2014 19:46, Dumitru Ursu wrote: On 02/01/2014 08:30 PM, Octavio Alvarez wrote: [...] Then again I tested it in 0.97.2 and it's broken too. :-/ This is a show stopper for those that need exporting with alpha channel. Is is possible to write some kind of integration tests? For the

Re: More features

2014-02-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.02.2014 20:43, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 02/01/2014 11:40 AM, Hans Breuer wrote: [...] So it is a bug with Pango or cairo. While it might be possible to work around it in Dia I suggest you check your system first. Does it help to know that cairo-pdf works properly? Is there any

Re: More features

2014-01-31 Thread Hans Breuer
At 31.01.2014 17:24, Octavio Alvarez wrote: On 01/30/2014 03:25 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Available with Dia master [ ... ] Most of these issue are adressed in the development version [..] Implemented on Dia master: [...] SVG import got vastly improved recently. I've seen

Re: More features

2014-01-31 Thread Hans Breuer
At 31.01.2014 18:44, Slavko wrote: Hi, Dňa Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:25:08 +0100 Hans Breuer h...@breuer.org napísal: [...] Placing actions already available in the menu should be an easy task given the right selection. Customization would require some deeper knowledge of GTK. The hardest part

Re: Thanks for everything!

2014-01-30 Thread Hans Breuer
At 30.01.2014 19:07, Mark Buteyn wrote: I've enjoyed getting to know dia. I'm using it for network documentation and having fun. :-) I use a lot of HP Procurve networking equipment and was hoping to be able to convert the HP provided visio templates to Dia and haven't been successful so I

Re: Changing styles on selected objects

2014-01-19 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Dimuitru, At 18.01.2014 16:05, Dumitru Ursu wrote: [...] I've run into a into an issue, and I'm not sure whether is a bug or feature: Works for me as expected with Dia master and dia-0-97, but maybe you are stumbling about it's usability problem. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Dia 2. Switch

Re: Transparency for objects in Dia?

2014-01-19 Thread Hans Breuer
At 16.01.2014 07:41, David O'Shaughnessy wrote: I’m trying to get transparency on a standard polygon in Dia, but the colour picker never has the opacity option in it (unlike the screenshot here http://dia-installer.de/doc/en/objects-chapter.html#color-selector). Apparently the manual is ahead

Re: Adding a user defined attribute to the standard line - or another line-object, that works the same as the regular line object, but with user definable attributes in dia?

2014-01-19 Thread Hans Breuer
At 15.01.2014 15:25, Einar Indridason wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Steffen Macke d...@diagramr.biz wrote: Hi Einar, if you have a chance to look at the current development state of Dia in git master, you'll find that the standard line object is equipped with a number of meta fields

Re: Can you call an export filter from pydia?

2014-01-19 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10.01.2014 19:03, Dan Katz wrote: Hi - I’d like to put together an action which would basically do this: 1. Export current diagram to some format (e.g. SVG) 2. Launch some external program to operate on the exported diagram 3. Modify the current diagram based on the output of the external

Re: Extending Dia

2013-10-23 Thread Hans Breuer
At 20.10.2013 08:53, naman.iitb wrote: Hello As a part of Course Project we need to extend dia by providing some extra feature, may be a new UML Architecture feature which is not available or enhancing currently present features. There is a long list of feature requests for Dia available via

Re: [ANN] Dia Python plugin for Postgres

2013-10-21 Thread Hans Breuer
At 16.10.2013 13:18, Chris Daley wrote: Greetings fellow Diaistas, I had a need for designing database diagrams in Dia and importing/exporting them to Postgres. I tried some of the existing solutions and was never quite satisfied with them so in the end I wrote my own. It's pretty freshly

Re: Adding class to SVG Export

2013-10-21 Thread Hans Breuer
At 21.10.2013 16:48, jul@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am trying to use Dia to generate svg diagram for presentations build using reveal.js, and I need to modify the way the svg is exported. Context : Reveal.js https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/ is a small framework for creating presentation

Re: layer.remove_object() doesn't apply to connection points

2013-10-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 27.09.2013 13:13, Bao Niu wrote: Syndrome: If you have a Database -- Table on screen, and then add a Standard - BezierLine connecting to one of the table's connection point, you cannot use python's API to disconnect this two objects programmatically. To me this sounds like a bug in your code.

Re: What's wrong with comment input box in linux?

2013-09-25 Thread Hans Breuer
At 25.09.2013 00:07, Bao Niu wrote: There seems a bug in Dia under Ubuntu Linux. When you click attributes, the comment field should be an input box. Now it is just a collapsed line, and doesn't allow you to put anything in it. Is it a bug or it's me missing something here?

Re: how to invoke unselect() method from DiagramData?

2013-09-16 Thread Hans Breuer
At 16.09.2013 13:13, Bao Niu wrote: I'm using python script and trying to programmatically pass a newly opened tab DiagramData to the script. If you would create the diagram from the script you should already have the diagram object. The interface is (DiagramData, flags). How can I invoke

Re: suggestion

2013-09-16 Thread Hans Breuer
At 14.09.2013 12:43, Zsolt Boda wrote: Hi Guys, it is hard to grab an item and resize (eg edge of a box or the message on the UML arrow). Could you make the handler squares double size or maybe the size could be configurable in preferences? The handle size is not specific to any object, it is

Re: [PATCH] fix some french translation + fix some compilation warnings

2013-09-13 Thread Hans Breuer
At 08.09.2013 21:13, Thomas Burg wrote: Hello Find attached 2 patch one complet french translation and the other fix several compilation warning. Thanks for the patches. I've applied 4/6 of your compiler warning fixes. Some of them I prefer to keep, for different reasons: - lib/arrows.c :

Re: Shema for DIA format

2013-08-30 Thread Hans Breuer
At 28.08.2013 16:30, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Tveritinov, Alexey alexey.tveriti...@sap.com wrote: Hello all. Is there an XSD describing DIA file format ? Excellent question. I don't know of one Not an XSD but a DTD is available at

Re: Dia and TeX: PSTricks and PGF export

2013-07-17 Thread Hans Breuer
At 16.07.2013 15:20, ABourgeois@Free wrote: Hi again, Update on this topic: it appears there's another issue, this one concerning the text color. This issue is already reported as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688663 The patch there seems to implement the same solution you

Re: How to deal with menupath in dia.register_callback()

2013-06-29 Thread Hans Breuer
At 29.06.2013 13:13, Bao Niu wrote: I tried this in my code: dia.register_callback(ModKeys, Display/Database/ModKeys, mod_keys()) There is one obvious bug in your code: you are supposed to pass the function as paramter to register_callback, not the return value of your function. I was

Re: API to Dia's export functionality

2013-06-26 Thread Hans Breuer
At 24.06.2013 17:48, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello, I am writing some lisp (Common Lisp) code to export dia files to png files. Right now, I am using the command line switch (-e). That's the only supported way ... But I am wondering if it is possible via one of Dia's libraries using a foreign

Re: Dia grid snapping

2013-06-26 Thread Hans Breuer
At 22.06.2013 18:04, Dumitru Ursu wrote: Hello, I'm doing some UML diagrams in Dia, and while I'm very satisfied with the program itself, I've runned into some issues. The thing is, it's very hard to draw straight diagrams. I use grid snapping, but the diagram looks like hell. To make grid

Re: What does the flags parameter function?

2013-06-26 Thread Hans Breuer
At 20.06.2013 10:48, Bao Niu wrote: When defining the following python script: def ListConnections(data, flags): What does the flags parameter function? It doesn't seem to get used in that particular function. Thanks. Brief checking of Dia's source shows it is not used aynwhere. IIRC it was

Re: Fwd: API documentation for beginners

2013-06-19 Thread Hans Breuer
At 19.06.2013 21:19, Bao Niu wrote: Hi there. I'm learning Dia python scripting and very interested in it. However I found the current documentation for APIs is a little too terse, only meant for those who are in the knows. For example I couldn't find any piece of information on the difference

Re: [dia] Align Connected: option missing from Align menu

2013-06-04 Thread Hans Breuer
At 23.05.2013 16:45, Matija Kecman wrote: Hello, Thanks for developing Dia, it's a very useful tool! I am having an issue where the Align Connected option is not appearing in the align menu. HelpAbout says that I am using dia-normal 0.97.2 Given that Align Connected is a feature of the

Re: Hello dia I Wonder hox is align text when we export from dia to dxf

2013-06-04 Thread Hans Breuer
At 28.05.2013 19:46, denis Bertin wrote: The groupe code 71 is not defined in your convertion for Autocad DXF format howunderstand it ? https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/plug-ins/dxf/dxf-export.c#n544 A brief check of the Dia's implementation against the specification implies there

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 07.05.2013 00:37, Michael Ross wrote: [...] I hear that being able to select multiple entities and change their properties altogether is coming (good when you want all the properties to be alike among the group). Do not trust rumors however. I wouldn't call the Dia 0.97 release

Re: Custom shape similar to Resizable - Grid

2013-05-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 08.05.2013 14:15, YaoYuan wrote: Hello, I am new to Dia. I want to define a shape similar to Resizable - Grid so that I can create it with some paramete. Is there a way to do this? I'm not aware of any object Resizable - Grid in standard Dia, but assume you are refering to the object from

Re: How to change the UML line width attribute ?

2013-05-06 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.05.2013 21:24, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Lecoq Maximemaxime.leco...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Ok, thanks. So I did git clone and saw that it already has been done (apparently since 2010-09-18 :

Re: How to add relationship lines?

2013-05-05 Thread Hans Breuer
At 05.05.2013 15:39, Genadi Saltikov wrote: Hello! I've been trying Dia on Ubuntu 13.04 and it works great! I am doing ER Diagrams for various uni assignments in few courses. However, I cant figure out, nor find anything in the documentation about how to create relationships between objects

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