On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:48:44 +0200, Dan Bar Dov wrote > I'm using dia to generate block diagrams. There is one feature I > dearly miss in dia: > > entering objects with text is very unfriendly. > > Let me explain: > I want to create a box and put a text in it. Adding a text to the box > is great, but now I want those two to live together, group them you > say? sure but then I cannot edit the text anymore. Now consider I > want 50 boxes, I need to group, copy/paste, ungroup, change text, regroup? > > I tried to create a shape that's a box with text in it - couldn't > figure out how to do that in 5 minutes (exported a diagram as shape, > tried to "sheets and objecs" add it, dia crashes) , so I dropped the > idea. > > UML class object has text in it, but it gets resized to the internal > text size - not what I want, plus the class has some extra lines. > > I'm talking about what to me is the minimum basic functionality. It > has been in visio from day 1. Maybe I'm missing something, so please, > enlighten me, I think it is very likely I'm missing something.
Have you tried the shapes in the flowchart sheet? They grow (resize) with the size of text inside them; but they admit two or three symbols withot growing .. I use in my work shapes that don't resize (I 'm still planning to send them to Dia ...). My texts are usually very short, so I prefer all the shapes being of same size ....and eventually modify some sizes if needed. My shapes have just 2 connecting points, vertically or horizontally aligned. I can send you some if you want. > > Dan > > BTW I'm not on the list, so please "reply to all". > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > Dia-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia -- Loli [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
