I'm enjoying using Dia and if I can just add a few shapes for my work, it'll be an invaluable tool but I'm having trouble adding shapes.
I'm working with Dia 0.9 on W2k and FIPA's AUML (as described in http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00025/). I'd like to add some shapes to the UML palette. My first experiment was for the connector for the exclusive-or of multiple possible messages. It is a strong vertical line with a diamond over its center and an 'x' in the diamond. It looks something like this: | | | / \ / x \ \ / \ / | | | Resizing this should never change the width, nor the aspect of the diamond and x, but should only lengthen the vertical line. My first cut at this was: <?xml version="1.0"?> <shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns"; xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";> <name>AUML - exclusive OR</name> <description>Exclusive OR</description> <connections> <point x="0" y="3"/> <point x="0" y="2"/> <point x="-1" y="0"/> <point x="1" y="0"/> <point x="0" y="-2"/> <point x="0" y="-3"/> </connections> <svg:svg width="3.0" height="3.0"> <svg:line style="stroke-width: 2" x1="0" y1="1" x2="0" y2="3"/> <svg:line style="stroke-width: 2" x1="0" y1="-1" x2="0" y2="-3"/> <svg:g> <svg:polygon style="stroke-width: 1 fill:background" points="-1,0 0,1 1,0 0,-1"/> <svg:line style="stroke-width: .5" x1="-.25" y1=".25" x2=".25" y2="-.25"/> <svg:line style="stroke-width: .5" x1="-.25" y1="-.25" x2=".25" y2=".25"/> </svg:g> </svg:svg> </shape> But I have several problems. First, when I have great difficulty getting this shape loaded into Dia. The documents suggest that just having this file in the right directory will work but that has not been my experience. I have developed a long, tedious set of steps that involves removing the prior instance of my developing shape, adding a new one, and restarting Dia. (This is made extremely painful by the slow, slow file browsing in the shape manager.) So, what _do_ I have to do to get Dia to see auml-xor.shape and load it? Second, when I create one of these, it has the wrong size and aspect. The diamond is no a square rotated 45 degrees but rhombus. How do I set the size of shapes created from my own XML? Finally, resizing this shape distorts the diamond further. How can I limit resizing to lengthening the vertical bar? Thanks for any pointers. Chris -- Christopher Nelson GE Fanuc, Albany [EMAIL PROTECTED] 518.464.4992 _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
