It is complicated, but it has the advantage of being completely flexible. You can also make the point so small as to be invisible, which is a little simpler than playing with the background and z depth. If you get the habit of using the shortcut keys Dia becomes pretty efficient even for things like this. ctrl-G and shft-ctrl-G are a great combo to learn.
Also, it is the only way you can do what you want. Outside of creating your own special shape. This workaround is simpler than that. M On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Julian Hagenauer < hagena...@uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > Hi, > thank you. > Your approach seems a bit overcomplicated. Using a connection point and > making its color the same as the one of the background is not that much > different from using a box and setting its bordercolor accordingly. > In LibreOffice-draw you can connect lines directly with text without > any tricks. However, draw comes with its own problems and defiencies. > I want to stick with dia, and i think i must live with this > backgroundcolor-trick. > > Thank you, > Julian > > Am Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:13:48 -0400 > schrieb Michael Ross <michael.e.r...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi, You will like this. > > > > Get the Electric palette and bring out a "Connection point". Place it > > where you want relative to the text. Drag a box over them both and > > hit ctrl-G (for group). You can connect the line to the connection > > point. You can copy and paste the group to reproduce it and you can > > ungroup (ctrl-shift-G), move the point, group to relocate the point > > at will. You can hide the point my making it the color of the > > background and move it behind the text (ctrl-shift-B). You can double > > click the ungrouped text and turn on or off the background and change > > its color. You can group a box or other primitive function with the > > text as you desire. The bezier region can be made in to any shape. > > > > That should jump start you. > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Julian Hagenauer < > > hagena...@uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > i want to draw a tree. > > > The nodes should be text, and lines should connect the nodes. > > > With dia it seems not possible to connect text with lines. > > > So, the only way arround it seems to be using simple boxes with > > > text. However, boxes have borders that i do not want. > > > Setting the linewidth of the border to 0 does not > > > keep dia from drawing the borders (a bug?) > > > > > > Can you give me some advice, how i can link just text-labels with > > > lines? > > > > > > Thank you very much, > > > Julian > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dia-list mailing list > > > dia-list@gnome.org > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > > > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > > > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Dipl. Inf. Julian Hagenauer > Chair of GIScience, Research Assistant > Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg > + Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) > + Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) > > hagena...@uni-heidelberg.de > http://giscience.uni-hd.de > > Berliner Straße 48, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany > fon: +49(0)6221 / 54 4370 > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > https://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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