Re: Feature request: Select text of element's labels by Ctrl-A

2017-03-01 Thread Alexánder Alzate Olaya via dia-list
Hi All, About this problem I would like to add some thoughts. It seems like the _Dia text input_ doesn't have the common behavior with key combinations like: * Select All "CTRL + A", as pointed by Igor Zhbanov * Delete previous word "CTRL + BS" * Delete next word "CTRL + DEL" and so on. On Thu

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-18 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Max, At 18.01.2011 08:50, Max Wahler wrote: [...} Yesterday evening, I figured out that I have to modify pydia-render.c and it works! =) Is there any reason why higher level methods like the rounded rectangle methods are not treated in that class? Simply not having the need for them ws my re

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-17 Thread Max Wahler
Hi Hans, hi Steffen, thanks for your comments on Python and that I don't have to recompile, that saves me a lot of time. Yesterday evening, I figured out that I have to modify pydia-render.c and it works! =) Is there any reason why higher level methods like the rounded rectangle methods are

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-17 Thread Hans Breuer
At 17.01.2011 15:44, Max Wahler wrote: Ok, after ignoring the outdated SVN info on the homepage and instead checking out from GIT and learning some Python basics, I have a few questions: 1. Do I have to do a complete "make clean ; 'make clean' should almost never be needed make" after I did s

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-17 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Max, On 01/17/2011 03:44 PM, Max Wahler wrote: 1. Do I have to do a complete "make clean ; make" after I did some changes to my Python plugin or is there any faster way? You don't. But you have to restart Dia in order to get your plug-in reloaded. Steffen

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-17 Thread Max Wahler
Ok, after ignoring the outdated SVN info on the homepage and instead checking out from GIT and learning some Python basics, I have a few questions: 1. Do I have to do a complete "make clean ; make" after I did some changes to my Python plugin or is there any faster way? 2. I like the output

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-15 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi, On 01/15/2011 03:23 PM, Max Wahler wrote: http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/NEWS?id=3cf5a40#n5 Maybe I'm blind or dumb (or both), but where do I find that property editor? Most probably, you're not blind or dumb. But this feature is not part of a released Dia version yet. You'll have t

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-15 Thread Max Wahler
Hi Hans, first of all, thanks for your support! Not sure if I understand, but sounds like part of this could be possible with some recent and not so recent additions. With http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/commit/?id=3cf5a40 it is possible to interweave meta information from the object level with

Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 13.01.2011 17:18, Max Wahler wrote: > [...] My problem now is, that the generated SVG is pretty nice, but there's no possibility to give the UML elements identifiers that themselves become id attributes of the generated SVG group tags. Not sure if I understand, but sounds like part of this cou

Re: Feature request

2011-01-13 Thread Max Wahler
Hi Steffen, the CSS method was just the simplest I could imagine. Another way would be to process the complete XML file and get the corresponding tags by searching for the keyword, for example the label of a state. With states, that's no problem, but becomes unhandy in transistions and other

Re: Feature request

2011-01-13 Thread Steffen Macke
Hi Max, On 01/13/2011 05:18 PM, Max Wahler wrote: My problem now is, that the generated SVG is pretty nice, but there's no possibility to give the UML elements identifiers that themselves become id attributes of the generated SVG group tags. That'd allow me to simply put the results of the tes

Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

2008-12-20 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: 2008/12/21 Christian Ridderström : Consider two boxes of the same size one below the other, with two connectors on each side, i.e., each side is divided into three equal parts by the connectors. If you want to connect the left connector on the b

Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

2008-12-20 Thread Sameer Sahasrabuddhe
2008/12/21 Christian Ridderström : >> Consider two boxes of the same size one below the other, with two >> connectors on each side, i.e., each side is divided into three equal parts >> by the connectors. If you want to connect the left connector on the bottom >> of the top box, and the right conne

Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

2008-12-20 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: I think this is a general problem, not just limited to UML objects. I agree. I've had similar issues while drawing block diagrams. Typically I use zig-zag lines. The workaround that works somewhat for me is to snap the line to the centre of t

Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

2008-12-19 Thread Sameer Sahasrabuddhe
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Hans Breuer wrote: > Again: could you be more specific? Although there are "many objects" in the > UML set which are oddly sized (by their content), the only one where I > occasionaly have the described problem is the UML Lifeline. But there it is > possible to al

Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

2008-12-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 13.12.2008 14:12, Casper Hillerup Lyhne wrote: Hi. I have been using Dia quite a bit to draw UML diagrams and such. There is a problem though. When i am done connecting all the objects with lines i always find myself zooming to ridiculous levels to align the objects so that the lines betwe

Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

2008-12-18 Thread Lars Ræder Clausen
On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 14:12 +0100, Casper Hillerup Lyhne wrote: > Hi. > > I have been using Dia quite a bit to draw UML diagrams and such. There > is a problem though. When i am done connecting all the objects with > lines i always find myself zooming to ridiculous levels to align the > objects

Re: feature request

2007-03-04 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: There is no such feature at the moment, I'm afraid. It patiently awaits somebody who'll implement it. That was a very nice and polite way of phrasing it! Best regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth

Re: feature request

2007-03-04 Thread Lars Clausen
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 02:06 +0530, nandam vijayanand wrote: > Hi all, > First of all thank u for developing this wonderful program.Is > there any feature to link an object to a file in dia. Like in ms word > u can link the object to a file or url. Actually i want to link the > object to an

re: feature request: hover help/tooltip text

2006-07-21 Thread tim . bogie
Todd Chambery wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sure you have plenty on your plate, but a feature a I think would be > useful: > > Hover help/tooltip text > > I have some large diagrams with lots of notes, many of which are > definitions. They're important for saving me from flipping to the data

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: feature request: add support for web diagram

2006-02-20 Thread Lars Clausen
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 add support for this in an upcoming release? The obv

Re: Feature request

2004-04-13 Thread Paweł Garbacz
Lars Clausen wrote: I found some very usable extension for tool designed to draw diagrams. I mean objects connected with not a real auto-route connector, but simple straight, or maybe a curve connector. I also meant of something like attaching this connector not only at borders, but also at the

RE: Feature request

2004-04-13 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 06:07, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, 20040408 at 20:20, Lars Clausen wrote: > >On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 01:01, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> Every time I try to print from Dia the program crashes, whether I > >> print to .ps file or to a printer. I've tried re-compiling with and

Re: Feature request

2004-04-13 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 21:10, Paweł Garbacz wrote: > Hello, > > I found some very usable extension for tool designed to draw diagrams. I > mean objects connected with not a real auto-route connector, but simple > straight, or maybe a curve connector. I also meant of something like > attaching th

RE: Feature request

2004-04-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, 20040408 at 20:20, Lars Clausen wrote: >On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 01:01, Matthew Miller wrote: >> Every time I try to print from Dia the program crashes, whether I >> print to .ps file or to a printer. I've tried re-compiling with and >> without gnome support (my default is w/out). I'm prin

Re: Feature request

2004-04-12 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Mon, Apr 12, 2004, à 10:38:46AM +0200, Free a écrit: > yeah, but what about fucking win32 users that have only two left hands? sed runs under cygwin^W^W^W^W^W nah, strike that. "Lots of possible refinements once the base feature is in place". -- Cyrille --

Re: Feature request

2004-04-12 Thread Free
yeah, but what about fucking win32 users that have only two left hands? - Original Message - From: "Cyrille Chepelov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:40 PM Subject: Re: Feature request > Le Fri, Apr 09, 2004, Ã 06:54

Re: Feature request

2004-04-09 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Fri, Apr 09, 2004, à 06:54:31PM +0200, Free a écrit: > I think it should be better if the becomes href="./other.html"/> (or something like that) so you could link a image map > to another, and not only to a picture. you can pipe the ismap fragment into sed to achieve this. We could also mak

Re: Feature request

2004-04-09 Thread Free
I think it should be better if the becomes (or something like that) so you could link a image map to another, and not only to a picture. From: "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Links between > dia files could be translated to image maps automatically on > export to PNG (e.g.: becomes href="./

Re: Feature request

2004-04-09 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Fri, Apr 09, 2004, à 02:12:17PM +0200, W. Borgert a écrit: > Quoting nobody in specific: > (discussion about URIs/URLs in elements, etc.) > > Having URIs/URLs attached to dia objects would be really great. > But what I'm missing most, is the ability to link to other dia > files. Dia has no co

Re: Feature request

2004-04-09 Thread W. Borgert
Quoting nobody in specific: (discussion about URIs/URLs in elements, etc.) Having URIs/URLs attached to dia objects would be really great. But what I'm missing most, is the ability to link to other dia files. Dia has no concept of a "project" or some kind of file tree. (Maybe this is good, becau

Re: Feature request

2004-04-09 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Fri, Apr 09, 2004, à 11:43:37AM +0200, Free a écrit: > I may suggest one or two things : > * it should be very interresting, I think, to make Dia able to export to map > pictures for web, Yep, IMAGEMAP HTML fragments would become a useful companion to .PNG files. If SVG files have the concept

Re: Feature request

2004-04-09 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Fri, Apr 09, 2004, à 09:19:33AM +0200, Lars Clausen a écrit: > On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 18:20, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > Le Thu, Apr 08, 2004, à 08:07:13PM +0200, Lars Clausen a écrit: > > > > > > previously (see: > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-April/msg00053.html for mor

Re: Feature request

2004-04-09 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 18:20, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 08, 2004, Ã 08:07:13PM +0200, Lars Clausen a écrit: > > > > previously (see: > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-April/msg00053.html for more), > > > but it seems that nothing has been done since. > > > My users wou

Re: Feature request

2004-04-08 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Thu, Apr 08, 2004, à 08:07:13PM +0200, Lars Clausen a écrit: > > previously (see: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2002-April/msg00053.html for more), > > but it seems that nothing has been done since. > > My users would like to make hyperlink between diagrams. I think it can be a >

Re: Feature request

2004-04-08 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:10, BrokenClock wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm a quite new user to Dia, which I like very much. I found it so powerful > that I suggest to some of my user in production environment to use it, on > Win32. There's only one thing missing cruelly, the possibility to make an

Re: Feature Request

2002-10-30 Thread Alan Horkan
Very nice of you to offer to help, let's see... > Talk to Alan Horkan about prettying up the icons for the shapes he's > making. That's the only graphics stuff I can think of right now. The only existing icons i have made any effort to make as pretty as the ones i added (my Assorted Sheet) are

Re: Feature Request

2002-10-29 Thread Lars Clausen
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Robert Smith wrote: > Ok I have a feature request, if at all possible, though i don't know how > much coding this will take. > > Snap lines : If the shift key is held whilst drawing lines they only can > be drawn at certain angles, e.g. 180, 90, 45 and 30 degrees. Some of thi

Re: Feature Request

2002-10-29 Thread Alan Horkan
Please file this in bugzilla.gnome.org you are quite specific about how you think this should be implemented, in your report please say why (ie if another application does this please say which application so people can compare behaviour). thank you Sincerely Alan Horkan On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, R

Re: Feature Request: UML::ActiveClass

2002-04-11 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Thu, Apr 11, 2002, à 12:25:15PM +0200, Torben H. Nielsen a écrit: > "An active object is an object what owns a process or thread and can > initiate control activity. An active class is a class whose instances are > active objects." So, we have the former in dia, but not the latter. Shouldn't

Re: Feature Request...

2002-03-05 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le Tue, Mar 05, 2002, à 12:13:25PM -0500, John F. Brainard Jr. a écrit: > Is there a planned feature for using the middle mouse button to scroll a > Dia sheet or something of this sort? Or does something like this exist > that I've been unable to figure out? you can use control + arrow keys (in a

Re: Feature Request...

2002-03-05 Thread Lars Clausen
On 05 Mar 2002, John F. Brainard, Jr. wrote: > Is there a planned feature for using the middle mouse button to scroll a > Dia sheet or something of this sort? Or does something like this exist > that I've been unable to figure out? The 'four arrows' tool lets you scroll the sheet. The middle mou

Re: Feature request

2001-10-29 Thread Lars Clausen
On 29 Oct 2001, Sebastian Fischmeister wrote: > Hello. > > There's one thing that I am missing for quite some time: I am > using the 'center horizontal' and 'center vertical' features all the > time, but they are that hard to click (deep down in the menu > hierarchy). > > It would be pe

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le lun, sep 03, 2001, à 01:06:23 +0200, Abraham van der Merwe a écrit: > What I meant was: it's not that I don't know how to resize an eps in latex; > the problem is with dia. By default dia exports to an eps that's truncated > to fit on a page so you only get half an image (if you look at it wit

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread Abraham van der Merwe
Hi Cyrille! > > That doesn't help. If you don't set the scale in dia, you export only half > > the file (since the diagram doesn't fit in a page), so you won't see the > > entire image, no matter what width you specify. > > What about using a resizebox ? OTOH, I always include my (EPS) figures u

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le lun, sep 03, 2001, à 11:38:37 +0200, Abraham van der Merwe a écrit: > That doesn't help. If you don't set the scale in dia, you export only half > the file (since the diagram doesn't fit in a page), so you won't see the > entire image, no matter what width you specify. What about using a resi

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread Nicholas Piper
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, James Henstridge wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote: > > This would solve my problems too (I use LyX / LaTeX). I didn't realise > > that the printing "scale" would change the exported scale, but it does > > so at least I can do it via the GUI for now :-) A --s

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread Abraham van der Merwe
Hi James! > > > --scale is very important to me. The reason for this is that I use dia to > > > make figures that I embed in latex documents. The problem is that by > > > default, if I convert dia -> eps (or fig), the figure doesn't fit on a page > > > (and even if it did, it would still be to b

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread James Henstridge
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, Abraham van der Merwe wrote: > > > --scale is very important to me. The reason for this is that I use dia to > > make figures that I embed in latex documents. The problem is that by > > default, if I convert dia -> eps (or fig), th

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread Nicholas Piper
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001, Abraham van der Merwe wrote: > --scale is very important to me. The reason for this is that I use dia to > make figures that I embed in latex documents. The problem is that by > default, if I convert dia -> eps (or fig), the figure doesn't fit on a page > (and even if it did

Re: feature request

2001-09-03 Thread Abraham van der Merwe
Hi Cyrille! > Le dim, sep 02, 2001, à 05:41:07 +0200, Abraham van der Merwe a écrit: > > > So for instance I have 10 dia files. They all should be converted to xfig > > format (.fig), and they should use a 30% scale. I want something like this: > > > > for F in *.dia > > do > > dia --scale

Re: feature request

2001-09-02 Thread Cyrille Chepelov
Le dim, sep 02, 2001, à 05:41:07 +0200, Abraham van der Merwe a écrit: > So for instance I have 10 dia files. They all should be converted to xfig > format (.fig), and they should use a 30% scale. I want something like this: > > for F in *.dia > do > dia --scale 30 --export-format=fig $F >