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

2002-07-18 Thread Rob Campbell
t interface (MDI) or even a Single Document Interface (SDI); toolbars, documents, palettes et al all have their own windows. Does anyone know of an application for Windows that has some or all of these features? Thanks again, Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

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

2002-07-16 Thread Rob Campbell
I use Dia and GIMP on Windows. Does anyone know of a windows manager that also runs on Windows? Thanks, Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Tim Ellis > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:37 PM

RE: Menu bar issues

2002-05-27 Thread Rob Campbell
le bit of polish. Thanks, Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Hubert Figuiere > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 5:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [long] lots of problems, you did ask .

Re: Suggested Functional Improvements

2002-05-03 Thread rob . campbell
--- Quote --- Decompositions of diagrams into smaller and more detailed diagrams seems a very important feature in most modelling situations. Take older style Data Flow Diagrams for instance? Perhaps, one feature could be to allow Objects to be double clicked and to open up other Models? As I work

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-05-03 Thread rob . campbell
w or press Ctrl+N. A different extension would be used for templates, so that Dia could scan your home directory and populate the New dialog. Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Preferences dialog (RE: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface])

2002-05-01 Thread rob . campbell
e problems, but it limits expansion. I don't think the tabbed dialog should be thrown out too hastily. Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-05-01 Thread rob . campbell
ts and shift+click extends the selection. Therefore, if drag selects, then shift+drag should extend the selection. Same applies to reverse selection. If we are going to add meaning to shift+mouse, it should be analogous to current behavior. Rob Campbell [EMA

Preferences dialog (RE: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface])

2002-05-01 Thread Rob Campbell
ld be straightforward to borrow Gimp's code, since it uses GTK+. I also think that the more similarities between Gimp's and Dia's user interfaces, the better. Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Grid Size (RE: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface])

2002-05-01 Thread Rob Campbell
of 10. I don't think there should be an arbitrary upper limit. This will be especially important if Dia gets user definable units. Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

RE: CVS and uncompressed Dia files? (RE: Is there a more stable version than 0.88.1?)

2002-04-29 Thread rob . campbell
Diff doesn't actually know anything about the semantics of the language, though, right? Which is why CVS works seamlessly with C, Pascal, or readme files. I think it is line oriented. The only thing it cares about when merging two changes derived from the same revision of a file is their proxim

CVS and uncompressed Dia files? (RE: Is there a more stable version than 0.88.1?)

2002-04-29 Thread rob . campbell
file simultaneously, merging there changes through CVS? I suppose one could even optimize the file format for that. Just a thought. Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

RE: Is there a more stable version than 0.88.1?

2002-04-29 Thread Rob Campbell
fixed so that no attributes have default attributes. That way, it would not be possible for values to change from release to release of the program or file format. Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Tools for hacking Gnome documentation?

2002-04-25 Thread rob . campbell
regard). Which tools would you recommend I use? I'm thinking of VIM as an editor. More importantly, which tool should I use to convert the SGML to HTML for testing purposes? I'm using Windows. Thanks, Rob Campbell ___ Dia-list mailing li

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-04-25 Thread rob . campbell
jects insider rectangle", etc. The confusion on this option points to two general improvement could be made to Dia's interface: context sensitive help and help buttons wired to the help file. Are there any GTK+ applications that have this capability, that the code could be borrowed fro

Re: Dia's user interface

2002-04-23 Thread rob . campbell
ing a free (as in beer) CAD program, IntelliCAD, right now. It uses this space to display the state of Grid, Snap, and other settings. Double clicking toggles on/off states and brings up a dialog for layer, etc. This would be useful functionality in Dia. Rob Cam

RE: FAQ update

2002-04-23 Thread Rob Campbell
Although it seems to be GTK+ specific, the fact that you press the down arrow key to begin entering data on a dialog notebook page seems FAQ-worthy to me. A UI section was added to the FAQ recently. Rob Campbell ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL

RE: Dia's user interface (Keyboard friendly dialogs)

2002-04-22 Thread Rob Campbell
accelerator keys to every field and control, including the notebook tabs. This would allow you to jump to any field, including greyed out ones. I hope this helps. Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.

RE: (no subject)

2002-02-23 Thread Rob Campbell
It is also the format that the technical writer at my work prefers for use in documents, and he uses MS Word. "WMF, the format of professionals." Rob Campbell ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

RE: (no subject)

2002-02-23 Thread Rob Campbell
Before more confusion ensues, please note that "tar zxvf file" will not work on Windows, which the OP uses at least part of the time. Therefore, the file must be unzipped and unarchived in two steps: gzip -d file.tgz tar -xf file.tar Rob Campbell > -Original Message- &

Re: preferences dialog

2002-02-20 Thread rob . campbell
s world). Do I understand you correctly that the preferences dialog is generated from an external source file? If so, could you direct me to it in the CVS tree and any documentation on its use? Thanks, Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:23:58 +1030, > &

Re: 0.89 and/or CVS

2002-02-14 Thread rob . campbell
later be integrated into the installer. But as of now, the version on Hans' page is dated 1/1/2002 and the installer is dated 1/7/2002, so go with the installer. Could there please be an official release and an update of the Dia web site download page? Thanks, Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] &g

RE: Dia start errors on Win 98

2002-02-13 Thread Rob Campbell
I think it's %userprofile%. It should look for %home% first (since those Windows users who know about the HOME environment variable and set it would probably prefer it be used) before %userprofile%. NT generates the %userprofile% variable; I don't think it can be changed. > -Original Messag

Re: Dia start errors on Win 98

2002-02-13 Thread rob . campbell
Read the FAQ: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Windows version.

2002-01-11 Thread rob . campbell
ll Dia manually, following the instructions on Hans' page, you must be sure to have the right versions of all the libraries in the same directory as dia.exe. I recommend that you download and install all of the libraries that Hans links to on his page, rather than going with what you may already

RE: Struggling with CVS version of dia

2002-01-05 Thread Rob Campbell
o hans.breuer.org/dia/dia-0.89.htm. Also, the latest versions on the Dia and the Dia Installer web sites are 0.88-2. Thanks again, Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Hans Breuer > Sent: Friday,

Re: Struggling with CVS version of dia

2002-01-04 Thread rob . campbell
e.net makes installation a snap; the necessary libraries are included in the same package. Unfortunately, it only supports the latest official release, 0.88.2. If you compile a CVS version for Windows, I would appreciate if you placed it somewhere that I could download it from. Thanks, Ro

Re: More keybindings, 2nd thoughts...

2001-12-18 Thread rob . campbell
Alan Horkan wrote: >Rob Campbell wrote: > >>Alan, >> >>That was me:) +F would be a good replacement. >>But what about plain F > >Ctrl+F would be more consistant That's one problem with standards (UI or otherwise). Why shouldn't my graphics app

RE: More keybindings, 2nd thoughts...

2001-12-14 Thread Rob Campbell
ight be a first project that I could tackle. I'm looking forward to your key bindings. Shortcuts are much more efficient than menus. Thanks, Rob Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alan >