On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Jan Kester wrote: > Yes. Text is wrapped, or you can press enters yourself to create new > lines. If it doesn´t fit in the box, then the vertically centered and > flows over and under. Size of the box remains the same. > > Regards, Jan > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre > de Lars Clausen > Enviado el: jueves, 16 de enero de 2003 13:20 > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Asunto: Re: resizing objects fails > > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Jan Kester wrote: >> I would say wrapping. If all the sizes are adapted automatically by the >> amount of text, you get a very odd looking diagram. Boxes should all be >> equal size, font size should remain the same as well to create a nice >> diagram. I really like it the way visio does it (which I guess is a good >> example for the dia-project). > > Not having access to a Visio here: What does it do when there's more text > in the box than will fit? Extend it vertically? > > -Lars >> >> Regards, Jan >> >> -----Mensaje original----- >> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre >> de Lars Clausen >> Enviado el: miércoles, 15 de enero de 2003 19:21 >> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Asunto: Re: resizing objects fails >> >> >> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jan Kester wrote: >>> The problem is that the relative sizes of the boxes is difficult to >>> control. If one box contains a lot of text and the other little, they >>> will have different sizes. I'd rather have equal sized boxes, some with >>> lots of texts, some with little. >> >> Do you mean boxes with equal width, where word-wrapping occurs, or boxes >> of the same size where the font size shrinks if the text is too large? >> >> -Lars
Actually, this could be added really easily at a low level, by using pango_layout_set_width(), which does word wrap for you, even in strange exotic languages. I'd like to see that in the next version, could you put in a bug report so we remember? -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ 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
