You can group as many things as you like which locks them together. Lines will snap to the components in a group that they snap to when ungrouped. You can put really small or background colored connectors points from the electric menu and snap to that as you like with what ever you like.
Not a programmer of Dia, just offering current functions that workaround for you. Mike On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dilan Amarasinghe <soba...@gmail.com>wrote: > I think David has a valid point, if other elements just get attached > to line anchoring points when they are moved around. To my experience > only text items or end of line-type items do anchor when they are > dragged by their end points or anchoring points over the anchoring > points of the other items in flowchart, but not the other way around. > > They idea behind my suggestion is that we often move things around to > edit flowcharts. So when items are properly anchored no matter how > they are moved around the diagram will keep its structure intact, > barring any editorial changes to make things pretty. > > Hope this makes sense and I would welcome your comments. I tested > this on Dia 0.97.1 on a OSX 10.6.6. > > Dilan > > -- > Dilan Amarasinghe > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Michael E. Ross NC Solar Center Test Laboratory ================================= (919) 576-0824<https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> best (919) 631-1451 cell (919) 513-0418 desk michael_r...@ncsu.edu michael.e.r...@gmail.com ============================= NC Solar Center : www.ncsc.ncsu.edu Professional Directory : www.greenprofessionals.org "The information in this email is provided by the NC Solar Center at NCSU as a public service. The Solar Center strives to provide accurate information, but does not warrant or represent the accuracy, usefulness or reliability of this information. For specific advice, we always recommend that you consult with a professional in the appropriate profession for your needs." Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Record Law NCGS, Ch 132 and may be disclosed to third parties
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