Re: SQL support

2010-02-26 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi Wolfgang, Shame nobody pointed you at the appropriate section on the links page : http://projects.gnome.org/dia/links.html There are plenty of projects, in a variety of languages (not all python ;p) that convert to and from dia, including to SQL listed on the page. A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BS

Re: Using Dia for auto network mapping tool ?

2009-08-20 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/8/14 T.J. Yang : > > I have Xymon(Hobbit) system monitoring tool to monitor thousands of machines > in different LANs and WANs. > Dynamic generation of network maps upon adding and deleting of machines will > be a great time saver. > > Both the GUI(for human) and command line(for script) abi

Re: Automatic diagram layout

2009-05-25 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/5/15 Lars Ræder Clausen : > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:30 -0300, Adriano Bonat wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I used, with success, "Postgresql autodoc" to reverse engineer my >> database, but it generates a Dia diagram without a layout, and having >> about ~60 tables with several associations would t

Re: convert php files to dia diagram

2009-03-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/3/2 leledumbo : > >> you could try AutoDia: > Thanks, I'll try it. Cool. Any feedback or bugs appreciated. >> autodia parses PHP, but you probably want the most recent which you can >> download from cpan > Got it, thanks. Btw, google still lists its original homepage on the top. Cool. The h

Re: convert php files to dia diagram

2009-02-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/2/27 Steffen Macke : > you could try AutoDia: > > http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk/opensource/autodia/ Yes - autodia parses PHP, but you probably want the most recent which you can download from cpan (http://search.cpan.org) A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Develop

Re: sql2dia

2009-02-25 Thread Aaron Trevena
2009/2/12 Miguel Angel : > I wonder whether there is any tool you are currently running to become > the basis for sql diagrams to dia, as there was a project called > "sql2dia" that supports postgresql. > > I hope to suggest something. There are quite a few options for converting sql to dia uml.

Re: API

2008-10-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/10/11 Lars Ræder Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > You may want to look at projects like http://www.graphviz.org/ >> >> Thank you for the suggestion. > > Sounds like you are talking about an API for generating .dia files. > Since .dia files are (optionally gzipped) XML files, there is no > cod

Re: Avoiding connection conflicts/cross-overs in UML diagrams

2008-08-13 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/8/9 Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:13 PM, David Laban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I want to make dia automatically lay out connections on UML diagrams so >>> that they avoid hitting other objects and crossing over each other as >>> much as >>>

Autodia 2.07 release

2008-05-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi, Just a quick announcement that Autodia 2.07 is now available from CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Autodia/ This new releases fixes and updates the DBI handler so that relations, keys (both foreign and primary) are included in output, as well as data types. The Perl handler also has impro

[OT] CanViz

2008-05-20 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi All, Off topic -- but way cool and interesting to other graph/chart geeks : Graphviz on an HTML5 canvas : http://www.ryandesign.com/canviz/ A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting ___ Dia-list mailing

Re: dia barfing on valid xml input

2008-05-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
> So for the moment I've commited something which has the same user-visible > effect and also solves some other imprter related issues: I'll almost always take "works as expected today" over "correct some time in the future" thanks :) A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integratio

Re: Maintainership moves on...

2008-05-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/5/1 Branko Collin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, Lars, for all the work you've put into Dia the past years. +1 Thanks also to Hans for picking it up. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting ___ Dia-l

Re: dia barfing on valid xml input

2008-05-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/5/1 Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes. And there is one importer registering for xml now : doxml.py. > So the automatic detection does not pick-up the one you want. If you call > your file filename.dia that would certainly help. That fixes it, but is definately a workaround rather tha

Re: dia barfing on valid xml input

2008-05-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/5/1 Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you trying to use the importer for Doxygens XML format for the read Dia > diagram files? Than it may be that you are hit by > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503117 Nope. > > xmlint reckons the XML is fine, so it's a bizarro dia behavi

dia barfing on valid xml input

2008-05-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi All, I'm wondering if anybody can help track down the source of this problem when importing a generated xml into dia 0.96.1 : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/dia/python/doxrev.py", line 482, in import_file classes = GetClasses ([sFile]) File "/usr/share/dia/python/doxr

Re: DIa Port to Java

2008-02-18 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 16/02/2008, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 08:30 -0600, Mark and Lisa Collins wrote: > > I am trying to find a developer, for hire, that would be interesting > > in building Dia in Java with some modifications. Can you point me to > > someone who might eb inte

Re: Bugs in SQL-Import of Autodia 2.03

2008-01-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 10/01/2008, Maciej Jaros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you could try sql2dia: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sql2dia/ > > It worked fine for me and you don't even have to make dumps it goes > straight from the server. Just run with something like: > c:\Perl\bin\perl mysql2dia -d database

Re: Bugs in SQL-Import of Autodia 2.03

2008-01-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi Patrick, I'm the author of Autodia and just spotted your email to the dia list. Thanks for tracking down that problem - can you do me a huge favour and repost the bug report in the autodia rt queue at rt.cpan.org That way I can make sure a fix is included in the next release. Aaron. -- htt

Re: Formats /flowcharts

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 28/10/2007, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone worked with GraphML output in Dia? Is there something I could > > be doing to help Dia read SVG files better? > > Unless there's something I missed in my 5-minute perusal, GraphML does > not define size and position of its elemen

Re: Dia ER Modeling

2007-10-10 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 06/10/2007, Steffen Macke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello David, > > > Can Dia reverse-engineer a database structure? If so, how? > > Dia itself does not provide reverse-engineering for databases. However, there > are several tools that might be able to do what you are looking for: Autodia

Re: sql2dia program

2007-10-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 02/10/2007, Francesco Ricci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, I suggest you this program > http://sql2dia.sourceforge.net/ > ... > unfortunately the latest release 0.2 is dated 2004, but it's gpl ;-) > ...it is the only program of this kind... AFAIK, and you? > (reverse engineer an existing db

new version of autodia (now with c-sharp)

2007-08-30 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi Dia users, Just a quick note to say that Autodia 2.04 has been released with an added C# handler, and the ability to provide a list of package names/patterns to skip (as well as the existing ability to exclude components and/or superclasses not parsed). New release at http://search.cpan.org/di

Re: Dia Language Bindings (2) (was: Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia)

2007-03-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 26/03/07, Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a little more thought [and about 3K lines of code ;) ] I have a > better offer: Language Bindings done with the help of SWIG [1]. > > It not only supports Python and Perl but also about ten other languages Hans, You're a star! :) Don't

Re: SQL Support

2007-03-24 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23/03/07, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running dia on Ubuntu Edgy, and have tedia2sql installed, which > works well for transforming the .dia file to sql syntax. Is there a > plug-in or other tool that anyone on the list knows of for taking a .sql > file and transforming it in

Re: java to dia ?

2007-03-20 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 17/03/07, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:30 +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote: > > hi, > > > > i has anybody tried to use autodia or any other tool that makes dia > > diagrams from java or c++? Dimitri - have you reported your C++ problems to me? if so I'm sorry I

Re: dia file format

2006-06-04 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 04/06/06, Tiago Maduro Dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm considering DIA for UML graphical display/manipulation of source code models. Is there any resource that explains in reasonable detail the .dia file format? Have you looked at any of the tools that already do this? Autodia reads and

Autodia 2.03

2006-04-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hello dia people, Just a quick announcement : Autodia 2.03 is now available on cpan, with added usefulness, workyness and shinyness. See the CHANGES file for details of the enhanced funk Cheers, A. ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://m

Re: c++ import

2006-04-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 26/04/06, Eric Desjardins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to load c++ class file in dia? Hi Eric, Autodia will read C++ (and perl, php, sql, etc) and produce a Dia file (or umbrello, or png/jpg/etc via GraphViz/SpringGraph/VCG). Version 2.03 should be available on CPAN today. Ch

Re: feature request: add support for web diagram

2006-04-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 20/02/06, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 18:58 -0800, tim hillukka wrote: > Hello, I use Visio at work for diagramming web sites. > You just connect to the url, and Visio will generate a > diagram of pages and the links connecting them. Could > it be possible to

Re: autodia for sql: error in Diagram.pm

2006-04-27 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi Gregoire, I'm testing Autodia 2.03 before release and checked with your sql file and it worked correctly :) Autodia 2.03 should be on cpan later today. sorry it's been rather a long wait :( Cheers, A. ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org

Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia

2006-03-24 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23/03/06, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because nobody has found it worthwhile enough to make bindings for any > other language. Dia is in no way, shape or form wedded to python, and > don't let Hans' refusal to provide bindings for other languages give you > that idea. He made his

Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia

2006-03-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23/03/06, Grégoire Dooms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nobody said that you *have* to use Python. I remember reading Hans said > you could develop Perl bindings. > > > I've always found developer documentation for dia to be almost > > entirely absent - I had to reverse engineer the XML format for

Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia

2006-03-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23/03/06, Rob McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that you have a pretty short memory... I'd say Hans didn't > start the flaming. Sorry, Hans has basically said 'tough shit, use python or get lost' repeatedly on list whenever anybody talks about using something else. It's not

Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia

2006-03-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23/03/06, Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/03/06, Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thats one of the things I find annoying about dia - WTF should I learn > > > python and rewrite cpan modules just to call a script from dia - lam

Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia

2006-03-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 22/03/06, Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thats one of the things I find annoying about dia - WTF should I learn > > python and rewrite cpan modules just to call a script from dia - lame > > lame lame. > > > Very impressing and motivating words. Feel free to provide Perl bindings > to

Re: Graph::ASCII::Dia

2006-03-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 19/03/06, Hans Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19.03.2006 12:00, Nadim Khemir wrote: > > Hi, I need ASCII diagramming; I couldn't find anything so I decided to wrap > > one myself :). I 'm writting a perl module to generate ASCII diagrams from > > Dia. > > > If I would want an ASCII diagr

Re: C++ to UML

2006-03-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 22/03/06, om ke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for simple way to document my c++ source code. My intention to > comeup with some kind of UML type of diagram that can be extracted directly > from the C++ source code. Any hints on how I can acomplish the above will be > greatly apprecia

Re: autodia for sql: error in Diagram.pm

2005-07-11 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi Gregoire, everybody, Thanks for the bug report - I'll get in touch off list.. Cheers, A. ps. new Autodia to be out real soon now, honestly, I mean it this time.. ___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/di

LJ article on Dia and other UML tools

2005-06-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
Thought those on the list might be interested in the comments made in this review/comparison between dia and other tools (on linux) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8334 It's a shame he doesn't bother to look at argouml and umbrello properly cheers, A. ___

Re: A patch to support creating network diagrams using programs

2005-05-20 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 5/19/05, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 08:25 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote: > > I'm writing some scripts to extract data from spreadsheets and build > > network flow diagrams. I assumed that if I created a line that > > connected handle A to handle B that dia wo

Re: A patch to support creating network diagrams using programs

2005-05-16 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 5/16/05, Michael Tiemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing some scripts to extract data from spreadsheets and build > network flow diagrams. I assumed that if I created a line that > connected handle A to handle B that dia would figure out where to put > the line and display it. It did

[related tools] new Autodia release

2004-04-06 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi all, its been a while since I last notified the list of a new version of autodia so I thought I might get away with mentioning that version 1.99 is now available from the website and CPAN. improvements have been made to most of the handlers included such as C++, Perl, PHP, etc. New features i

[related tools] Autodia 1.7

2003-07-12 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi guys, sorry to spam the list - I do try and avoid it where possible but I was hoping fellow dia users would be intrested in giving the autodia 1.7 release 2 a try before I annouce and release properly (via, cpan, etc). I'm afraid its been several months since the last release but its worth th

dia to sql and back

2003-04-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
Tim Ellis : > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 09:55, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > Sorry I don't use E-R diagrams, I (and pretty much every programmer I know > > who deals with database schemas) uses a variation of the class diagram. > > Yes. that sounds like a concensus ;) > >

Re: Dia-list digest, Vol 1 #802 - 4 msgs

2003-03-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My take on the XML vs. SVG issue: I'd need to see very good reasons to > change our file format. XML has worked well so far, there's many documents > out there in our current format, and there are many programs that work on > our current format. If

SVG, autodia and SQL ( was various bits of digest, Vol 1 #801)

2003-03-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have to point out that I like the Dia XML as it is. After all compare > > the abundance of tols for creating and parsing it against those for > > argouml or kivio. > > Well there are other factors, argouml is java based and kivio is not > entirely

Dia2, SVG, XMI, Dublin Core, aw hell just look at OO.o [RE: RE: RE:]

2003-03-29 Thread Aaron Trevena
> From: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > sorry i am mostly going to skip responding directly to the thread. ditto - already posted on the thread. > You want XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and you want to do UML type > stuff in it then you want XMI (XML MetaData Interchange). IBM Eclipse is >

File Formats (was SVG)

2003-03-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
I have to point out that I like the Dia XML as it is. After all compare the abundance of tols for creating and parsing it against those for argouml or kivio. Dia was using XML well before it became a key technology, and SVG was used significantly. Seperating presentation and information as Dia do

[related tools] New Autodia

2003-03-19 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi guys, I have been doing some more work on autodia since my last announcement - in case you didn't catch the news elsewhere : there is a new stable release and pre-release of Autodia. You can find version 1.4 and 1.5pre at http://droogs.org/autodia/ as usual. Version 1.4 now provides better su

XML

2003-02-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
> From: John Edstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:40:24PM -0600, Lars Clausen wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Edstrom wrote: > > > I'm thinking of spitting out some data as digraphs. I looked at the > > > xml output from simple graphs and think that I can figure it all out

Anyone interested in a Perl plugin?

2003-01-15 Thread Aaron Trevena
I would be very interested in a perl plugin for dia. I have loads to dia related stuff I am working on and its all perl. cheers, A. -- Aaron J Trevena - Perl Hacker, Kung Fu Geek, Internet Consultant AutoDia --- Automatic UML and HTML Specifications from Perl, C++ and Any Datasource with a Ha

re: once more with feeling (now going dotty)

2003-01-06 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just released a new release of autodia - version 1.3, now with added > > workingness for PHP and C++. [snip] > That's good to hear! It's a very useful tool -- I'll have to try it on > some of my larger pro

once more with feeling.. ( new autodia )

2003-01-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
hi guys, I just released a new release of autodia - version 1.3, now with added workingness for PHP and C++. In case you didn't know what it does - a quick summary : Parses C++, PHP, Perl and JAVA source files and generates stuff outputs dia xml (UML class diagrams) UML class diagrams in gif for

Re: Autodia SQL patch (for doing "sql2dia")

2002-10-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
> From: Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Autodia is a tool for automatically generating Dia diagrams from source > code files. For example, it helps in building inheritance diagrams. It > handles perl, java, C++, C, and Php. It does indeed - but your milleage will vary :) Anybody with su

pipe/export

2002-07-17 Thread aaron . trevena
> From: Andrew Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2002-07-16 at 14:10 -0700, Tim Ellis wrote: > > > > Dia would have a configuration directory (something like > > > /usr/share/dia/exportpipes.d). > > > > Overridden by ~/.dia/ > > Maybe --- this would be a 'not much extra effort' feature. But > tedia

[related] New autodia release

2001-07-06 Thread Aaron Trevena
In case anybody was interested.. I've just released version 1.0 of AutoDia. AutoDia creates XML (including UML class Diagrams for Dia), text or HTML documentation from Perl, C++ and soon Java and PHP source code. requires perl and template toolkit. cheers, A. -- Aaron J Trevena - Perl Hack

Re: Quick Feature Request

2001-05-31 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 31 May 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > Yes, my coworker came up with the perfect way to find these bugs, so we've > killed most of them (at least, we haven't heard of any remaining). The > latest release also has a bunch of other improvements. By all means, get it. Ah - I had one pop up briefly

Re: moving lines with shapes

2001-05-23 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 22 May 2001, Lars Clausen wrote: > > This relatively simple feature (to the opuitsider looking in at > > least) would make a huge difference to visio usability. I'd be happy to > > code it if somebody gave me some big pointers on where and how to start > > and what to look out for. Dia is a bi

Re: moving lines with shapes

2001-05-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Andre Kloss wrote: > Do you presume that lines _must_ connect to the chosen connection > point? If you have a look at argoUML (http://www.argoUML.org), you can > see, how this _could_ work. ArgoUML is just for Java coders, so don't > expect wonders, but the obvious solution to

moving lines with shapes

2001-05-22 Thread Aaron Trevena
a major bug bear of mine and many people I have spoken to is the lack of intelligence in lines. ie they stay attached to shapes, but don't follow them. This can greatly increase the amount of time taken to do a serious diagram, and particaulraly in my case removes some of the benefit of automati