One of the two goals I have for the next version of Dia is a grouping system that doesn't suck. The current one sucks in the following ways:
* You cannot 'open' a group to edit the elements inside. * You cannot have connections into or out of a group -- in fact, if you group a connection or a connected object, connections are *broken* * Grouping destroys the height information of the objects, they all end up at one level no matter what they were in front of or behind. So I've added a new object under the Misc sheet for testing a new group. The interface so far is nothing like the old group, in fact it's just parenting, but that's because parenting and grouping now becomes even more related. So if you make some objects children of the NewGroup object, they should behave as in a group, but with the ability to 'open' and 'close' the group through group properties. What I'm trying to ensure right now is that the various ways to interact with grouped objects makes sense -- you shouldn't be able to select an object in a closed group, or type to one, or basically interact with it in any way. Once the interactions are dealt with, I will make it look like the regular group and have it take that place. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org 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
