Greetings, Ken Springer! >>>> I want to make a chart of historical information, and would like to >>>>> annotate the chart entry with additional information. >>> I doubt you want to supply Dia along with your chart... >>> Either you picked a wrong tool for the job, or you should rethink your >>> expectations and adapt to the desired result with the tool on hand in mind. >> I agree with Andrey, you are probably using the wrong tool for the job: >> I suppose what you need is Inkscape, a vector graphics program: you can >> slice the svg and make a web page out of it, or animate the SVG directly >> (Inkscape doesn't support that directly). A bit of Javascript would do >> what you need. >> Also, consider Synfig as a tool for animations. >> >> Dima.
> I do not know why, but I never received Andrey's reply. If there's more > to the response, I do not have it. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2014-April/msg00010.html > Replying to Dima's message in reverse order, Synfig is definitely not > the tool I need. That is not the type of "animation" I'm looking for. You're contradicting to yourself. > I'm creating an organizational chart structure of information. If I > choose to, I want to be able to click on an object, in this case a > rectangle, and have another box, or window, open somewhere that gives me > additional information about the data in the rectangle. This is precisely what is called "animation", or "automation", if you wish. > The information the box/window will be the same type of information you > would get from a footnote, endnote, or bibliography. > It will simply tell me where I got the information from. Yet again, you expect much from a generic tool. You can probably do what you want with a bit of Python scripting, but there's no readily available tools in Dia to do this, that I'm aware of. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 21.04.2014, <22:22> Sorry for my terrible english... _______________________________________________ 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
