Okay, the source of my differing results has been located: Somewhere dia went from a situation where "draw background" value defaulted to true, to a situation where it defaults to false. Since my bottom-left subshape has no outline, and only a fill, it disappears. (I have found this in defaults.dia).
This means, that to me it appeared as if there was something wrong, while in fact, it only was rendered differently because its background was not drawn. The consequences of my results are on one hand very clear: On both my (debian/lenny/testing) development box *and* my (pclinuxos) linux laptop the provided patch and demo shape works out of the box on svn checkout 3861. I will try it one last time on a complete clean install of mandriva one 2008 livecd (with additional build tools), if it also works on this machine, then I'm afraid the source of the problem is not on this end. greetings, Marcel 2007/11/30, Marcel Toele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just to inform you, I'm trying to figure out was is going on. > > I have just reproduced my initial result (The outline shape, with only a > star drawn at the top/right position, but it *does* do non-uniform scaling, > unlike the result Lars got, which had an outline shape with start at > top/right which did uniform scaling). > > Heres what I did: > > I moved my ~/.dia out of the way, created a new .dia and only extracted my > supplied demo shapes/sheets in that directory. > When I then run app/run_dia.sh I get the outline shape with the single > star at top/right. > > > Interestingly: When I quit the svn dia and start an older release, e.g. > 0.95, then the shape is rendered fine (blue background, containing two > "subshapes"), of course with this older version, I get uniform scaling > (distortion). Now, when I quit this older > release dia and subsequently restart the svn dia with app/run_dia.sh all > is well and the shape with both subshapes are correctly > rendered *with* non-uniform scaling (i.e. no distortion). > > > I'm investigating the matter further... > > > cheers, > > Marcel > > > 2007/11/26, Marcel Toele <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > > 2007/11/24, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > I tested your patch against 3861 with the sample shape you provided, > > > but > > > it worked just like any other shape, the star in the corner scaled > > > just > > > as much as the box. > > > > > > -Lars > > > > > > > > > > I just couldn't believe my eyes when I read that. So on my home laptop, > > a linux box (which is running pclinuxos2007, note: the patch was prepared on > > debian nelly/testing) that hasn't ever seen my patch or a dia devel dir > > before, I did an svn check out (which was still at 3861) and subsequent > > build (I even had to install intltool for that): > > > > svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/dia/trunk dia > > cd dia > > zcat /tmp/subshape_for_dia_svn_rev3861.patch.gz | patch -p0 > > ./autogen.sh > > ( report came out with all extras set to: no ) > > make > > cd ~ > > tar xvfz /tmp/subshape_for_dia_demo_shapes_and_sheets.tgz > > cd - > > ./app/run_dia.sh > > > > * The first time I started dia, I got some graphic weirdness with a > > non-filled shape, with only an outline star drawn at the top-right corner. > > This was rather odd behaviour, but the subshape stayed with a proper scale. > > * Then I started vanilla dia 0.95-1, which showed my shape with uniform > > scaling (i.e. not what you want), but filled the shape properly. > > * Following this, I restarted my svn built and this time the graphic > > weirdness was gone and the shape performed as demonstrated in the video. > > * Then I rebooted my whole machine and started the dia again from the > > svn build dir and it still worked, without graphic glitches and with working > > subshape/subscaling. > > > > So apart from the first-time-start graphic weirdness that I cannot > > explain and cannot reproduce, the subshape/subscale patch works fine here on > > a never-before-used-for-dia-development laptop with a simple svn checkout > > and applying the provided patch files. > > > > I am clueless as to why it doesn't work for you, is anyone else having > > the same problems with my patch? > > > > > > Any suggestions as to how to proceed will be much appreciated. > > > > > > cheers, > > > > Marcel > > > > > >
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