As part of my University coursework i do a very small amount of modelling using the Systems Description Language (SDL) and it was suggested that i either use PowerPoint, or perhaps Visio. But ive heard nasty things about being locked into the Visio file format and im not a fan of MS office. I use the Gimp quite a bit and ive used Dia (briefly) on windows (please dont flame me, 95% of the University is win32 and i have to try really really hard and go well out of my way to use free software, and i want to be able to use good applications irrespective of OS).
So my question is does Dia have support for SDL? I googled (dia SDL) and found this dead link: dia-0.88-1.ppc RPM ... Pneumatic/seojack.shape /usr/share/dia/shapes/Pneumatic/seojack.xpm /usr/share/dia/shapes/SDL /usr/share/dia/shapes/SDL/block.shape /usr/share/dia/shapes/SDL ... www.linuxppc.org/software/index/contrib/Applications/dia-0.88-1.ppc.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages which suggest that dia might have some SDL support, but i managed to use a machine running Gnome and Dia 0.86 and did not see any information about SDL. I also checked out the web page and read the FAQ. by the way, why have a help menu with only the item 'About' in it, surely it makes more sense to simple active the about dialog as soon as the menu is clicked on, rather than adding in another unnecessary stage? Or even better add a link to a local copy of the help/FAQ my programming skills are not great but i think i might be able to contribute, perhaps even provide some basic graphics for SDL (which is basically just another type of flowchart). Thanks in advance Alan Horkan Trinity College Dublin -- Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Whoof, oh, I'd have to say the odds are slim, Brain. True. I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering? To my knowledge, never. Exactly. So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're pondering? Next to nil. Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too. Therefore, you are pondering what I'm pondering. Poit, I guess I am. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
