Dear all, thank you so much for your help I didn't understand it till a few minutes ago, handles snap to connection points and Handle::connected_to point to that connection point the handle snapped to so that connection point mainly belongs to the OTHER object.
may be it was a bit stupid from me, I was expecting it to be implemented the way I imagine it. Thank You again 2008/7/24 loli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:50:40 +0200, Andrew M. Botros wrote > > i am sure i didn't bring any standard lines by mistake, because > > i tried this several times, and i actually tried connecting 2 > > standard boxes with a standard line... > > > > which yelded : > > Handle num 0 > > Connected to: Standard - Line > > Handle num 1 > > Connected to: Standard - Line > > > > i don't think this was the problem. > > Please, can you send one of those diagrams? > Where do you look to get information about connections? It seems to me that > that information is not as complete as the information you can get by > looking > at the file. > > I apologize for beeng insistent with these ideas; I beleive they are right > for > diagrams up to Dia's version 0.96.1 and I hope there will be no important > changes about this. > I've attached a compressed diagram "line.dia" with just six objects; all > six > are Standard - lines; yes, we can see only four lines but there are six: > O0 and O1 are horizontal lines; > O2 is a vertical line; > O3 is a blue line; > O4 is a green line which is seen ....(not seen) at the middle point of the > blue line > O5 is a red line which is seen .....as a very tiny point at about (14,7) > > Standard -lines have always 2 handlers at their end points; and at least 1 > connection point (User can add connection points to a Standard - Line; > connection points are evenly distributed between the two end points). I did > not add connection points to any of the Standard - Lines so all of them > have > just one connection point at its middle point, connection point number 0. > > According to the file, only two objects have their handlers joined; > ---------------------------------- > for object 02: > <dia:connections> > <dia:connection handle="0" to="O0" connection="0"/> > <dia:connection handle="1" to="O1" connection="0"/> > </dia:connections> > its two handlers are connected: one to object O0 and the other to object O1 > ---------------------------------- > for object O4: > <dia:connections> > <dia:connection handle="0" to="O3" connection="0"/> > <dia:connection handle="1" to="O3" connection="0"/> > </dia:connections> > its two handlers are connected; both to O3, connection 0. > that means that both ends of line are at same place, at middle point of > object > o3 and that is the reason we can't see it. > --------------------------------- > (by touching and moving the point at (14,7) we can make the red line > visible; > by touching and moving the "point" at the middle of the blue line we can > make > the red line visible) > I apologize again and wish you luck ... > > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:55 PM, loli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:49:48 +0200, Andrew M. Botros wrote > > > > > what does "handle->connected_to->connected" exactly contain??? > > > because when i connect a standard line to a standard box for example, > > > and i check the handles of the standard line, here is what i get > > > > > > Handle num 0 > > > Handle num 1 > > > Connected to: Standard - Line > > > > > > which means handle number 0 is not connected to anything, and handle > > > number 1 is connected to a "Standard - Line" !!!!!!! > > > > > > > > isn't this a bit strange that the line is considered connected > > > to itself? > > > > I would say the standard line is connectec to another standard Line > > ; perhaps this second standard line is very very small so you > > don't see it .. May be when you intended to bring one Standard > > Line, you accidentally brought another one ... > > > > May be convenient for you to read the Dia's file containig the > > diagram and pay attention to object's numbers: O0, O1,O2, etc. > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________ > > > Andrew M. Botros > > > > > > ============================================= > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GoogleTalk) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MSNMessenger) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (YahooMessenger) > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > -- > > _______________ > > Andrew M. Botros > > > > ============================================= > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GoogleTalk) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MSNMessenger) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (YahooMessenger) > > > -- > 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 > > > -- _______________ Andrew M. Botros ============================================= [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GoogleTalk) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MSNMessenger) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (YahooMessenger)
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