Sebastian, If you use the box (named Process/Auxiliary Operation) in the Flowchart palette, it has this expanding to fit the text feature you desire. You can investigate many pre existing shapes in the palette sheets to learn how to code this stuff. The basic tools are what they are - useful building blocks.
Mike On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Sebastian Audet <smaud...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim, > > I understand your concern, however my use case is specific - when you > tag a piece of text to the center of the box, it automatically stays > centered with the box already. The problem is that the box doesn't > resize e.g. if you make the text larger, and it would be nice to have > some way of doing this automatically. > > I would think most users who anchor text to boxes would want something > like this to happen, even if you put a label on the top or bottom of > the box. I could see a case where you might not want to do this for > the top/bottom, and even an artistic case where you might want text > not to influence the box size even when its inside the box, and for > this reason I was already thinking there would be someway to turn this > off or on by default and on a case by case basis. > > Also I would not want the box to 'shrink' to the text, although I > suppose that could be another feature. I would implement that > separately. I would only want the box to 'grow' as the text became > longer. > > Is there something I'm missing that is giving you cause for concern? > > Regards, > Sebastian > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:00 AM, <dia-list-requ...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Send dia-list mailing list submissions to > > dia-list@gnome.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > dia-list-requ...@gnome.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > dia-list-ow...@gnome.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of dia-list digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update (Jim Clark) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 07:33:48 -0500 > > From: "Jim Clark" <jclar...@us.ibm.com> > > To: discussions about usage and development of dia > > <dia-list@gnome.org> > > Subject: Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update > > Message-ID: <201508061234.t76cy2rl031...@d03av05.boulder.ibm.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > > > Hi Sebastian-- > > > > I'm not sure just what you are asking here, and I am sure not making any > > changes anywhere. I am a user only, > > > > BUT--I would not want boxes to resize after editing text. (Or ever) I > want > > them to be the same size always. Whether full of text or only one word. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Jim Clark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Sebastian Audet <smaud...@gmail.com> > > To: dia-list@gnome.org > > Date: 08/06/2015 03:49 AM > > Subject: Want to resize Boxes on text update > > Sent by: "dia-list" <dia-list-boun...@gnome.org> > > > > > > > > First of all, I really like dia, in my opinion this is the best and most > > versatile tool out there for drawing things, fast. > > > > That said, there are a few rough edges. > > > > Is anyone working on making the boxes resize after a text edit? > > > > I'm working on a patch to get this done at the moment, but wanted to > check > > to see if anyone was doing something similar, or if there is a bugtracker > > or something somewhere. > > > > Sebastian_______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/attachments/20150806/2729d4b1/attachment.html > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: ecblank.gif > > Type: image/gif > > Size: 45 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: < > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/attachments/20150806/2729d4b1/attachment.gif > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: graycol.gif > > Type: image/gif > > Size: 105 bytes > > Desc: not available > > URL: < > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/attachments/20150806/2729d4b1/attachment-0001.gif > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dia-list mailing list > > dia-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of dia-list Digest, Vol 136, Issue 2 > > **************************************** > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. 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