Re: Named connection points

2012-02-22 Thread Ron Wilson
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:00 AM, dia-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:34:25 -0500 From: Dan Katz dpkatz...@gmail.com Yes of course.  I think it's a bit easier with names because you can introspect on them in the python REPL using 'dir' and 'help' and such, but looking

Re: Named connection points?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Ross
Since you understand your need and desire for documentation better than anyone, perhaps you are the best one to add the explanation? M On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Dan Katz dpkatz...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: But I don't see why you could not use

Re: Named connection points

2012-02-17 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM, dia-list-requ...@gnome.org wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:07:02 -0500 From: Dan Katz dpkatz...@gmail.com A bit of context: I'm writing a Python plug-in for Dia which translates a data-flow diagram to code in a home-grown legacy job-control language. The

Re: Named connection points?

2012-02-17 Thread Hans Breuer
to have named connection points and that they were removed in 2009 (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2009-August/msg00148.html). I guess I have two questions: could we bring back named connection points, Not without a convincing use case. As my removal comment says they were unused

Re: Named connection points

2012-02-17 Thread Hans Breuer
At 17.02.2012 19:24, Ron Wilson wrote: [...] The check-in comment removing named CPs claimed lack of use in the core objects and some memory savings as the rationale for deleting them. My use case, though, involves custom objects rather than core objects, and I'm not sure that the memory savings

Named connection points?

2012-02-16 Thread Dan Katz
.  I actually got so far as beginning to hack the C code to add this capability when I found that Dia actually used to have named connection points and that they were removed in 2009 (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2009-August/msg00148.html).  I guess I have two questions:  could we