I saw in the list archives there has been talk of re-working the currently
hardcoded "arrows" into something more dynamic for some time (earliest
reference I saw was back in 99). However unless it is in the CVS, it doesn't
appear any of these changes have made it...
I submitted a tiny patch yesterday with "crows feet" hacked in. However I
would really like to see a more flexible solution as well. I don't think it
would be incredibly hard to make it so the "arrows" are loaded (at startup?)
from a config file (XML?). The file I see would probably look like so:
<arrow category="ERD">
<stroke type="line">
<point>
<x>17</x>
<y>34</X>
</point>
<point>
<x>34</x>
<y>68</x>
</point>
</stroke>
...
</arrow>
Arrows could have multiple "strokes" each stroke being whatever primitives
GTK can work with (berziers, lines, poly-lines, etc). The coordinate system
would be such that 100 (or 1) would be the width/height of the triangles now.
0,0 would be on the line between "from" and "to" exactly one arrow/height
unit away from "to".
I will have some time to hack this weekend, so please let me know if this is
a direction the project might like to go.
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