[OT] Chemistry (was Re: Dia shapes for chemistry)

lasses & associations." In any case, Organic Chemistry 101 cannot prepare one for the psychological trauma associated with attempting to understand the above exchange... ;) -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing

Re: changing properties dialogue

y name? > If not, how about allowing some > escape sequence for this? Are you *SURE* you want to be using the ER shapes? Are you trying to model a database? If so, you may want to check: http://tedia2sql.tigris.org. If you are modelling a database, you'll likely be happier w/ the UML

Re: Re[2]: transparency as default

for #xxyyzz-->#aabbcc which might be a little much for most GUI users. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~all

Re: Lars..hmmm

> > Kick some illinois ass! > > I will, this Saturday I will be fighting at Oktoberfest. Me and my > fellow spearmen will kick a lot of ass. Spearmen? List: in case I ever get in too heated a debate w/ Lars, please privately remind me to tone it down. -- Tim Ellis (bad vision

Announce: tedia2sql, GPL ERD Tool

http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/sampleImages/TestERD.png http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/sampleImages/BigERD.png Homepage (mailing list, CVS, downloads, documentation, etc): http://tedia2sql.tigris.org -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Author, tedia2sql (http://tedia2sql.

Re: Intro and Questions -- (SQL Generation)

edia2sql.tigris.org/sampleImages/BigERD.png http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/sampleImages/TestERD.png current (broken) MySQL InnoDB SQL output: http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/innodb-testerd.sql mailing list archives: http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=u

Monthly tedia2sql Reminder: 1.2.6 released

agrams that are successfully parsed by tedia2sql into DDL for the supported databases. The BigERD.png screenshot is the actual ERD I work on as a DBA and, as you can see, is quite large and complex. Cheers, -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Author, tedia2sql ps -- If anyone knows of Oracle, D

Re: lines

oyed me that Gimp overloaded the ALT key for some tools. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Documentation Wiki

ou do this? Does it come straight from source code? Is there some automated fashion where I could generate that documentation from the code or does a developer guru need to take care of that (as you've done)? Cheers, -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Archi

Re: New Shapeset -- What Will I Need To Do...?

actually uses it currently (like chrono*.c) but which is uses every feature -- does chrono*.c do? -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: [OT] wiki (twiki)

xist, sorta like email. *bold*, _italic_, and such. Things that should be second-nature if you have worked in text-only mediums before. If you want to get crazy and do table of contents, tables, dynamic colourisation, and complex formatting, then you gotta learn extra stuff which I wouldn't t

Re: New Shapeset -- What Will I Need To Do...?

ling one > somewhere. http://faemalia.org/wiki/view/Technical is not going anywhere anytime soon, and is fully under my control to back up, move to another server, or whatever. It's a TWiki wiki. Personally, I've never found a better wiki than TWiki. -- Tim Ellis Sen

Re: New Shapeset -- What Will I Need To Do...?

index. But UML & ERD aren't a complete intersection either. Yeh, an ERD shapeset is sorely needed. It's on my TODO list. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: New Shapeset -- What Will I Need To Do...?

ers each)? If you still say YES, then great! I'll get to hacking. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

New Shapeset -- What Will I Need To Do...?

o UML)? The more RAD-tool-oriented the solution, the better... Oh, and just asking this question terrifies me. Please be gentle. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: thanks for tedia2sql

o algorithm that would handle it right, and certainly, when we delete attributes currently, it becomes obvious no-one else can think of one either. It's the reason I'm resistant to a "variable number of connpoints" algorithm. Every time I shorten an attribute name, or delete the &q

Re: thanks for tedia2sql

ways seem to take place. I had family affected by the nasty earthquakes in Taiwan a few years back, and Red Cross helped them out. And I guess I should be crystal clear: I don't want donations made in my name, I just want to know donations were made in lieu of sending cash to me. -- Tim

Re: [OT]: thanks for tedia2sql

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 06:34:31 -0700 Andrew S Halper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2002.08.26 08:45 Tim Ellis wrote: > > > Also a proposed large feature set which I'm still unsure how to > > handle, > > involving using special RDBMS constructs like CASCADE. &g

Re: [OT]: PS --> PDF converter

your argument that ImageMagick is just using ps2pdf to convert, since it displays the same broken behaviour. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: [OT]: PS --> PDF converter

t PDF is always sideways (ie: portrait orientation). If Dia were to attempt to incorporate an output-as-PDF function, looking at the ImageMagick "convert" command might be a good place to start. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc.

Re: thanks for tedia2sql

s to make more connection points on UML classes the standard behaviour and submitted the second patch to make sure this wouldn't harm legacy users of Dia. Getting more connection points is a FAQ, so I figure it can't be only me that wants it. The general consensus seems to be Dia will conti

Re: Strange success story

et site for anyone else who wants it. Acrobat Reader is a pretty common install. Interestingly, EPS files and most every other sort of vector graphic file format, including PS, aren't viewable on Microsoft systems without special software. -- Tim E

Re: WIN32 compilation, UML Sequence Diagrams and Inheritance arrows and the spirit of GNU software.

abase ERDs. But my fellow coworkers are still stuck in the Win32 world, and I've been able to placate their fears about Dia so far by dismissing all concerns with a casual: "Dia has a Win32 port." ACK? -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. __

OT: GNOME 2.0?

these kinds of questions? -- Tim Ellis ps -- Mandrake 9.0b2 seems to be pretty stable for installation, and rather buggy for upgrading. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: UML plugin...

hen adding functionality to Dia to allow it to recognise the installed-status of these other tools and have hooks to them(in the case of tedia2sql, a save/exec combo) and thus use them if installed. Even as a non-maintainer, I appreciate the difficulty involved with distributing these add-ons as pa

Re: Good job guys!!

at about four objects can fit on a single A4-size piece of paper, maybe 8 if you cram them. Objects seem a bit... LARGE. I scale all my diagrams down to about 18-30% size, which seems a little more sane. Is there a rationale for the current default scaling? Am I & Eddie the only two that think

tedia2sql 1.2.4 released

you'd expect, and not a strange abomination ;). -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: [ related tools ] New release of AutoDia

ayout... So it tries to sensibly place classes & sensibly route associations? I've never seen an autolayout algorithm I liked. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Dia and Database Design

B2, Postgres, Sybase target databases (others easily added) * Script is GPL (libre and free!) Go look at the tedia2sql screenshots at the tedia2sql homepage, and I think you'll get the idea. -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

UML Shapeset fork to ERD shapeset

. Being a non-coder, my guess is there needs to be a pre-processor that generates both class.c and dbclass.c which are different in those subtle ways...? Or is it quicker/easier just to fork the shapeset and try to keep the updates consistent across both shapesets? -- Tim Ellis Senior Database A

Re: tedia2sql 1.2.2 Released

ed ERD, and change the syntax to be SQL specific so there doesn't have to be a vocabulary mapping anymore. > Did you see the mail by Matthew Mondor about database design objects > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? You'd be better qualified to > answer him than I. I've searched

tedia2sql 1.2.2 Released

, and MySQL will be added whenever someone so desires it. homepage at: http://tedia2sql.tigris.org -- Tim Ellis Senior Database Architect Gamet, Inc. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Web Page Problems?

ite or from my project site, it always (?) gives me connection refused errors, but if I go from GNOME.org, it usually (?) gives me the content. It's really flakey for me, anyway, using Galeon. As for where it *CAN* be hosted, I guess I don't have any real ideas... Sourceforge always seems

Re: OT: Window Managers for Widnows (RE: OT!!! -- Window Managers)

say, I've used it with a large amount of satisfaction. Putting Gimp on one desktop, Dia on another, Outlook on another, and Explorer windows on another really make things work well. It's got keyboard, mouse navigation, and a tree menu for moving windows between desktop

Diff for UML Class Connection Points, v2.0

ss is a bit larger. Attached is a gzip'ped unidiff based on the last CVS snapshot I could download a few hours ago (diff -ur olddir newdir). Oh, included in the diff is a fix for a compiler warning, unused variable. -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet umlclass-connectonpoints-fix.diff.gz Description: Binary data

Web Page Problems?

I commonly get "connection refused" errors from the Dia homepage. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Is this a known problem? I seem to regularly get this problem from home/work and only with the Dia homepage. -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet

Dia-->SQL Conversion (tedia2sql 1.2.1)

iate future plans, stored procedures. More details at the project page. -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: OT: Window Managers for Widnows (RE: OT!!! -- Window Managers)

links for multidesk in particular: http://www.winsite.com/bin/Search?q=multidesk&x=0 But as always, your best bet is to uninstall Win32 and install one of the many fine Linux distros out there ;) -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: 'Pipe' export feature (was: Re: Bug #86375 can be closed...)

; needed to use in order to transform the file from it's native > .dia to (to use the example above) .sql. Each of these files > would then appear as another export filter in Dia's export > types list. This sounds like a better solution than what I

Re: Bug #86375 can be closed...

ple, there is a script out there somewhere that generates C++ code based on UML diagrams, and I bet the folks that do that would be interested in this feature as well. -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Bug #86375 can be closed...

ay be useful? I'll let the list decide. How about an export via filter? For example, I might like to export to the following: "grep attribute | sed -e 's/ABC/DEF/' > munged.txt" How's that? -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet _

OT!!! -- Window Managers

ow Manager's "Minimising and Maximising" behaviour, chose "When minimising window, also minimise: GROUP". Then I minimised Dia and all Dia windows minimised at the same time. So at least Sawfish implements this behaviour. (Sawfish is the default GNOME WM, btw) -- Tim Ellis

OT? How to link .dia to Dia

> But the point of the concept of an application being somehow linked to > the document remains. How can I store the GUI settings as a config that > is somehow linked to the docuement? Could the document not have another tag, ie: ? -- Tim Ellis D

OT!!! -- Re: First offered sheet

ail come up, I only press F3. I believe (and don't quote me on this, since I use virtual desktops) that Sawfish (the GNOME window manager) has an option to cause all related windows to minimise when you minimise an application, as well. -- Tim Ellis DB Architect, Gamet ___

Re: question about scheme for data base visualisation

s & views, Associations for foreign-key relationships (use the aggregate checkbox to indicate the many side of a one-to-many relationship). If, at the end, you want the ERD to generate SQL DDL for your RDBMS, check http://tedia2sql.tigris.org before you begin. -- Tim Ell

tedia2sql 0.86 Released

Extra DB constructs like sequences or special stored procs & triggers Cheers, -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

tedia2sql 0.84 released

s.org -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: How does Dia determine Font List?

fact that all diagrams always use Courier font despite the fact that the printout changes. I assume you're saying these two issues disappear once CVS version becomes Dia 0.95 or whatever the next version shall be? -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

How does Dia determine Font List?

ere are never any replies with answers. Any ideas? Any hints? Cheers, -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Fonts: I must know...

t, but it looks something like that). Do I need to be downloading some particular font pack, or running some X fonts generation script? I've got Mandrake 8.1 which seems to be a pretty standard distro. Is Dia being developed on something that maybe has some extra font aliases defined?

Fonts: I must know...

an error... When I print to a .ps file and view it in GV, I get some various fonts, but in the actual Dia design window, it's always Courier... Is this in my Dia setup, or is it a bug that's being worked on, or what? -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet __

tedia2sql (UML ERD-->SQL Converter) Update

nvert that ERD into a SQL DDL script for multiple databases with Oracle and Postgres support fully functional and tested by me. Sybase support 95% complete (DDL SQL is well-formed). Cheers, -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ps -- Mr. Lowden, received your email saying you possibly received my emails, but

Re: tedia2sql 0.77 (Dia-->SQL DDL Tool) Released

idn't bother adding links to Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MSSQL, or MySQL... sorry. http://faemalia.net/tedia2sql -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Dia --> SQL (tedia2sql 0.58 Released

I released two days ago a script I, in poor judgement, called "dia2sql" which is a replacement for dia2sql. I've renamed it to "tedia2sql" meaning Tim Ellis' dia2sql script. The current version is 0.58. Changelog includes: Sybase support, Postgres support,

Re: UML Class Connection Point PATCH against CVS

t connections[8]; + ConnectionPoint connections[UMLCLASS_CONNECTIONPOINTS]; Thanks, -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet unidiff-class-connectionpoints.diff.gz Description: Binary data

Re: UML Class Connection Point PATCH against CVS

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:42:52 +0200 Cyrille Chepelov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > diff -urN dia-0.90-pristine dia-0.90-modified Sure. Attached. Except it's Dia via CVS as of five minutes ago, rather than 0.90. -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet unidiff-class-connectionpoints.diff.gz Descr

UML Class Connection Point PATCH against CVS

7; So I'm sorry I can't check this patch. It should work fine, there's nothing complex that I've done to create this patch and the code I've patched here worked when I changed 0.90 to do the same. Thanks, -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet cvs-class-connectionpoint-diffs.tar.gz Description: Binary data

Re: Font Problem

can start using the .dia I've opened. Any clues how to fix this? And of course the only font that ever works is the Adobe courier font. I'd kind of like to use others... -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

PATCH to 0.90::object/UML/class.[ch] -- was "connection point on UML classes?"

might actually be wise to revise my patch to make the first 8 points always be the four corners and four centrepoints between the corners, then the additional points be the rest...? It would make the code more complex but would make sure upgrading from 8-point schemas to X-point schemas always works fi

Re: How to increase connection point on UML classes?

ections) > > Probably a good idea to have a define for the number of normal > connections. Yes, a #DEFINE will be how I go about changing it. Thanks, -- Tim Ellis DBA, Gamet ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

How to increase connection point on UML classes?

t to mention, once I've compiled it, I'm not certain how to replace the UML in dia with that, ie: how do you compile plug-ins? Can anyone give me a hint about how I can increase the number of connection points on the top/bottom of a Class in the UML s