I am with you on the "solution space." But I thought telling a story about it might be more persuasive, and encourage others to chime in.
My first remembrance of this desire is to make a variable resistor on the fly. We have nice resistor shapes, if I could pop a couple connection points onto it to attach a zigzig with an arrow, I could just move on to the next thing. It is a convenience. You can't expect the author of a shape to have the same connection needs as the users. I would find this useful with many of the technical shapes - hydraulic symbols, chem E, etc. If this was slick and easy then authors wouldn't have to put a buynch of extra CPs in their shapes. There are probably better ways that fit with programming needs, but I have to leave the solution space to others. Thanks for your attention, Mike On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Hans Breuer <h...@breuer.org> wrote: > At 02.10.2011 05:30, Michael Ross wrote: > >> Salutations, >> >> I had a discussion with Cedar about a new feature. Cedar asked me to try >> to >> describe it to the forum. >> >> It is a recurring theme of sorts where people want shapes to have >> connections points (CP) that were not placed in the shapes by the author. >> > Before jumping to the solution space, I think it is important to undestand > the problem, which frankly I do not. > At the moment I can't remember any case, where I wanted to add arbitrary > connections points. At least not after the addition of the "whole object > connection point", aka. mainpoint. [1] > > So please describe the use case where additional connection points are > deemed to be necessary. Maybe even with a sample diagram illustrating the > problem. > > > It would be nice to have a way to add connection points to any shape. I >> think of this as an on the fly option - you do it on a whim. >> >> > From the implementation point of view I would be also interested in the > requested subset of DiaObjects to have dynamic conection points. (If that > subset would include "UML - Class" I see exploding complexity, because UML - > Class already has dynamic connection points by attributes and methods > lists.) > > I imagine calling up the Properties, the pick the new Custom Connection >> Point (CCP) [...] just trying to sell the idea. >> >> If I would design the custom connection point feature it most certainly > would be started from the context menu, similar to Polygon's "Add Corner". > Given the right subset of DiaObjects it should not be too difficult to add > this feature, I think. I can give more detailed pointers to someone > interested in giving it a try, but dont plan to do this myself. > > > I have a laborious work around that I came up with. I create a polygon >> and >> arrange the points and valleys where I want connections, then I turn the >> polygon line color to the background color. All that remains visible then >> is the CPs. This polygon can be grouped with any shape to provide >> additional CP locations. Or I can develop the polygon over top of the >> shape >> I am enhancing. >> >> What shapes need such treatments. If these are specific ones maybe extra > connection points should be added at the source for the benefit of all? > > > This is better than my previous overuse of the annoying CP in the Electric >> sheet. >> >> I thought this wo be a work-around of connecting two lines, which seems > to be a completely sparated problem? > > Regards, > Hans > > -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- > Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to > get along without it. -- Dilbert > ______________________________**_________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/**listinfo/dia-list<http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list> > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com>
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