Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-23 Thread Steffen Macke
Greetings, Andrey! On 09/23/2011 05:53 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Hm. One question: Why two ellipses? I've achieved the same results in my own shape by simple Maybe the perfect circle was originally created using the shape export plugin. It's not very clever and tends to duplicate

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-23 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Hans Breuer! >>> Not quite. "Assorted - Perfect Circle" is a custom shape and it still has >>> the autogap feature. This is due to the main point. >>> But not marking one of the connection points with main="yes" should indeed >>> disable the autogap. >> >> Could you please explain? > Au

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-22 Thread Hans Breuer
At 22.09.2011 15:30, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Hans Breuer! [...] Not quite. "Assorted - Perfect Circle" is a custom shape and it still has the autogap feature. This is due to the main point. But not marking one of the connection points with main="yes" should indeed disable the autogap.

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Hans Breuer! Is there any way how to avoid this behaviour? >>> Without recompiling the only workaround coming to my mind is using another >>> (mis-)feature. If you group the line with something else it wont connect >>> any longer, thus not autogap. >> >> You can create a custo

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-21 Thread Hans Breuer
At 21.09.2011 09:59, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Hans Breuer! Is there any way how to avoid this behaviour? Without recompiling the only workaround coming to my mind is using another (mis-)feature. If you group the line with something else it wont connect any longer, thus not autogap. Yo

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-21 Thread Kaminar
> >> Is there any way how to avoid this behaviour? > >> > > Without recompiling the only workaround coming to my mind is using another > > (mis-)feature. If you group the line with something else it wont connect > > any longer, thus not autogap. > > You can create a custom shape, and it will wor

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-21 Thread Kaminar
> I have one problem with anchoring the line to the center of circle (ellipse). If I > drawing a line to center of a circle, the line is anchored to binding point at > border of circle. That feature is called autogap and implemnted about 6 years ago. See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/200

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Hans Breuer! >> Is there any way how to avoid this behaviour? >> > Without recompiling the only workaround coming to my mind is using another > (mis-)feature. If you group the line with something else it wont connect > any longer, thus not autogap. You can create a custom shape, and

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-20 Thread Hans Breuer
At 17.09.2011 09:44, Kaminar wrote: I have one problem with anchoring the line to the center of circle (ellipse). If I drawing a line to center of a circle, the line is anchored to binding point at border of circle. That feature is called autogap and implemnted about 6 years ago. See http://mai

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-20 Thread Michael Ross
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Michael Ross! > > > This is the same behavior I was referring to. When you are placing the > line > > on the circle it shows the whole line, but when you release it the part > of > > the line from the border to the center is invis

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-20 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Michael Ross! > This is the same behavior I was referring to. When you are placing the line > on the circle it shows the whole line, but when you release it the part of > the line from the border to the center is invisible. For the "perfect circle" it's not true. The line is clearly a

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-20 Thread Kaminar
I thought you are developer. :) Thank you for trying to help. Karel > No need for me to look at it as I am not a developer. I am just trying to > help find an existing method that can do what you want, and maybe clarify > the desired function. Perhaps Steffan or Hans will like to see the video.

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Ross
Karel, No need for me to look at it as I am not a developer. I am just trying to help find an existing method that can do what you want, and maybe clarify the desired function. Perhaps Steffan or Hans will like to see the video. If you have explored the function of ellipses and lines then you k

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-19 Thread Kaminar
> Regarding your discussion of blocks, do you mean a group? No, I don't mean group. I mean only select some objects with mouse. I captured video of this problem in Dia. If you agree, I can send you this video on your private email. Video length is 3.7MB. Zipped with 7zip video length is 2MB. Kare

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Ross
Kaminar, Regarding your discussion of blocks, do you mean a group? I recall some odd behavior with lines and groups, as if Dia remembered the old location after a move. I have stopped using the anti-aliasing since then, I can't think of why else this has stopped being a problem. I don't think I

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-19 Thread Kaminar
> It never hurts to mention which version of Dia you are using and the OS. I tried it in Dia 0.97.1 in Ubuntu 10.04. But described behaviour I observed in previous Dia version too. > With object snap turned on. > If you create an ellipse and set it to be a circle, and turn the back ground > off,

Re: Line pointed to center of circle

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Ross
It never hurts to mention which version of Dia you are using and the OS. But, I think you are seeing the behavior that is current for Dia. With object snap turned on. If you create an ellipse and set it to be a circle, and turn the back ground off, then draw a line to it, the line will snap to t