I'd rather the forum at Sourceforge was active but... It seems to me that when you double-click on an object that can contain text, it would be useful to have the dialog box that pops up able to edit the text, not just have font/color/alignment stuff in it. Sort of like the text line at the top of Excel or Libre Office Calc is the ultimate editor for a cell. Just put an edit box in there and populate it with the text that's in the object, then put any changes (set a dirty flag) back into the object when it's closed.
I have a queasy feeling about objects and text, it seems easy to add a standalone text anywhere but not so easy to add text to an existing object so it moves with it when dragged. I've never used Visio but several other drawing programs. There was some little freeware Windows drawing program from the 1990s I used to use which had a semi-formal binding process. A complex object made of several parts could be broken into the parts for editing, or conversely you could draw a box around the parts and bind them together, after which they'd drag and manipulate as a single object. "Bind" wasn't the term used, I forget what it was, same idea. I've also used an emf/wmf editor that worked that way. I probably still have copies of that stuff around on CDs. I'd like to use this for flowcharts which, on paper, have text inside most or all objects, as well as Y or N labels on a decision box's lines to later boxes. Alan Corey, aka ab1jx -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach _______________________________________________ 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
