Re: Re: creating custom shapes for visual storytelling (dave boyle)
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 20:50 -0400, dave boyle wrote: I see the xml in the *.shape files and the ext_attributes lines and have played with them. Where can I find a list of all the different types and their properties? Thanks! Sorry about the long response time. There's all the types listed in lib/properties.h: char, bool, int, intarray, enum, enumarray, multistring, string, file, text, stringlist, real, length, fontsize, point, pointarray, bezpoint, bezpointarray, rect, endpoints, connpoint_line, linestyle, arrow, colour, font, static, button, nb_begin, nb_end, nb_page, mc_begin, mc_end, mc_col, f_begin, f_end, list. However, not all of them make sense as ext_attributes, as some need data that you cannot supply. There's no page with descriptions of how they work in ext_attributes yet. -Lars ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: Re: creating custom shapes for visual storytelling (dave boyle)
I see the xml in the *.shape files and the ext_attributes lines and have played with them. Where can I find a list of all the different types and their properties? Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Dia-list mailing list submissions to dia-list@gnome.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Dia-list digest... Today's Topics: 1. creating custom shapes for visual storytelling (dave boyle) 2. Re: creating custom shapes for visual storytelling (Lars Clausen) 3. Re: Now look what you made me do (Sameer Sahasrabuddhe) 4. Re: Now look what you made me do (Lars Clausen) 5. Re: Now look what you made me do (Lars Clausen) 6. Re: Now look what you made me do (Sameer Sahasrabuddhe) 7. Re: Now look what you made me do (Sameer Sahasrabuddhe) 8. dia svg export: how do adjust size? (Zhang Weiwu) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:08:40 -0400 From: dave boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: creating custom shapes for visual storytelling To: dia-list@gnome.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I want to use Dia to write a screenplay. I need to create a sheet of custom shapes with names like character, location, prop, costume, interaction, etc. Each shape will need custom dialog boxes that appear when Properties is clicked. These dialogs will allow the inputting of the necessary data that goes along with each story element-shape. I've looked at the dialog box associated with the UML class shape which makes me think it might be possible, but is it? Can I create my own data objects and assign them to new shapes? Or is it just the UML class shape that has the ability to store extra information? With XML as the back end, what does it care about what I put in or where? As long as I conform to my DTD ... I'm an experienced object oriented programmer with no experience in Dia. I'd like to know if what I want to do is even possible before making an investment on the learning curve. Thank you for your assistance! -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:21:51 +0200 From: Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: creating custom shapes for visual storytelling To: discussions about usage and development of dia dia-list@gnome.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 22:08 -0400, dave boyle wrote: I want to use Dia to write a screenplay. I need to create a sheet of custom shapes with names like character, location, prop, costume, interaction, etc. Each shape will need custom dialog boxes that appear when Properties is clicked. These dialogs will allow the inputting of the necessary data that goes along with each story element-shape. I've looked at the dialog box associated with the UML class shape which makes me think it might be possible, but is it? Can I create my own data objects and assign them to new shapes? Or is it just the UML class shape that has the ability to store extra information? With XML as the back end, what does it care about what I put in or where? As long as I conform to my DTD ... I'm an experienced object oriented programmer with no experience in Dia. I'd like to know if what I want to do is even possible before making an investment on the learning curve. Thank you for your assistance! It is decidedly possible, but the UML objects are not the place to start, they are by far the most complex objects we have. It is possible that you can make do with shapes, i.e. XML-defined objects, take a look at shapes/Circuit/hresistor.shape for how to add your own data -- simple, fixed-count data only, though. If those are not enough, look to objects/standard for how to make new objects, and look at http://faemalia.org/wiki/view/Technical/ProgrammedObject. Please ask if you have more questions. -Lars -- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:57:08 +0530 From: Sameer Sahasrabuddhe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Now look what you made me do To: discussions about usage and development of dia dia-list@gnome.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 9/30/07, Lars Clausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So all this talk about delete key make me think more about how edit mode would happen, and eventually I sat down and did the first essentials. The current SVN uses edit mode, entering it automatically when an object with text is created or on Enter or F2, and exiting on deselecting the object or Escape. It doesn't fix the menus or anything
