Hi, I searched the archives for 'template' but didn't find exactly what I was looking for.
My idea is to create a basic diagram (a template) with several 'fields' or variables. Then I need some way to read something like a tab delimited file and produce one diagram from each 'record' in that file. The value for each field would be taken from the file and used to generate a diagram from the template. Here is a simple example of what I have in mind +-----+ +-----+ | $f1 | <--- $f2 ---> | $f3 | +-----+ +-----+ Where $f1 is the text inside the first box, $f2 is the text on an arrow and $f3 is the text inside the second box. Then using a file something like... f1 f2 f3 A 99 B C 2 D DAN LIKES DIA I would create 3 diagrams mail merge style. I guess this is easy for someone who knows what they are doing with XML, but I am not that person. Can someone advise? It would be really great to include a little tool with dia to help do this kind of 'templating', as their are lots of little things that you could add to such a system if it were a sub-project rather than a one off hack. I would find this really useful because I have about 150 little schematics to draw, and while I would love to use dia I am using GD. (admitedly if I knew XML better I could generate the dia file directly, but I don't know how.) Any suggestions appreciated, Dan. _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
