dia tips
Hello After drawing (draging) any object, my mouse pointer switches to Modify object(s) type, so if i want to draw another same object i must click it again. So is it can be tune, do not switch to Modify but keep the abuility to draw another object of the same type without clicking it? Cause when drawing a lot of similar objects (lines or boxes) it realy irks. regards, Eugene ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
Re: dia tips
äÒÁÐÉËÏ å×ÇÅÎÉÊ sagde: > Hello > > After drawing (draging) any object, my mouse pointer switches to Modify > object(s) type, so if i want to draw another same object i must click it > again. So is it can be tune, do not switch to Modify but keep the > abuility to draw another object of the same type without clicking it? > Cause when drawing a lot of similar objects (lines or boxes) it realy > irks. If you hold down Shift while selecting the object type in the toolbox, it becomes 'sticky' and keeps making that object until you select something else. -Lars ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
Bugs in Dia's MetaPost Plug-In
Hi all, recently I wrote to this list about pstricks output support. Then Rob McDonald advised me to try the MetaPost and now I actually used it a lot already. And for almost all cases it is more than sufficient (except images but I found that this is not easy solve in general with MetaPost and pixel images, this is also why I am still convinced that I somewhen will try to get pstricks to work more correctly.) Recently I stumbled across two bugs in metapost plugin, both visualized in the attached PDF file which shows three different dia figures exported to metapost. The dia files can be found in the attached tar file. The easier bug has to do with line width setting. As you can see in each of the first three figures the arrows are quite ugly when you set a line width of 0.65 and an arrowhead size of 1.20 or so. This bug comes from the plug-in using the current line width of the arrows line for the arrowhead which results in rounded edges of the arrowheads. I already wrote a patch for this which I will send to this list. It simply remembers at the end of each function whether it is going to draw a line or to fill an area in the function render_metapost.c::end_draw_op. With this patch the second bug is not visible at all, but I strongly beliebe that there is a logical problem in the export plug-in which I currently don't understand. The problem occurs only if there is a thick-lined line (or arrow) as you can see that it doesn't happen in figure 4. >From dia's view figure 1 and 2 only differ in bringing the first rectangle into foreground and the second into background or vice versa. The one in the foreground has bubbles on the edges. Somehow it depends on the foreground-background order whether the plugin draws the red-filled rectangle correctly or with bubbles on the edges which then again come from a wrong line width setting used to fill the rectangle. My point is that this should not happen at all as it doesn't for the special case of figure 3 when both rectangles are in the background. Can anybody point me to where the problem could be or how background-foreground ordering comes into play in the export plugin? Ciao, Michi metapost-test.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document metapost-test.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
Re: dia tips
Am 14.09.2006 23:26, Lars Clausen schrieb: > äÒÁÐÉËÏ å×ÇÅÎÉÊ sagde: >> Hello >> >> After drawing (draging) any object, my mouse pointer switches to Modify >> object(s) type, so if i want to draw another same object i must click it >> again. So is it can be tune, do not switch to Modify but keep the >> abuility to draw another object of the same type without clicking it? >> Cause when drawing a lot of similar objects (lines or boxes) it realy >> irks. > > If you hold down Shift while selecting the object type in the toolbox, it > becomes 'sticky' and keeps making that object until you select something > else. > There is also the switch "Reset tools after create" in File/Preferences. Finally the IMHO most convenient ability to hit [space] when in modification mode to get back the last used tool (shape). Hans ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
change default shape size and/or text size and format in UML?
Is there any way I can change the default shape size and/or the text and/or format, particularly using the UML sheet? Shapes and fonts start off very large and it's a real pain to resize everything. I poked around the doc and files a bit and couldn't find anything... Thanks, dwh ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
