Re: Restricting possible connections

2002-10-24 Thread Alan Horkan
Just to throw in my two pence Please allow the user to override any such restrictions. The users must be in control, although i am not suggesting you make it easy for people to do the "wrong thing" you just have to make sure it is possible for the situations when the user really does know better

Re: Restricting possible connections

2002-10-24 Thread Lars Clausen
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Mike Garnsey wrote: > I have been experimenting with doing something > like that, too. Why? I want to be able to have a set > of "idiot-proof" objects for a Dia user to lay out a > computer network diagram. For example, the user > shouldnt be able to connect something like a

Re: Restricting possible connections

2002-10-24 Thread ml
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:21:22PM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2. Of course, this must be an option to the user. Maybe a > >diagram specific or a global option? > > Hmmm... good question. Global options are easier to make and do away > with.

Re: Restricting possible connections

2002-10-24 Thread Lars Clausen
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:23:48AM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: >> The right place to add a checking call would be in >> layer_find_closest_connectionpoint() in app/diagramdata.c. Problem is, >> that loop goes over all objects in a layer, so we can't a

Re: Restricting possible connections

2002-10-24 Thread ml
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:23:48AM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote: > The right place to add a checking call would be in > layer_find_closest_connectionpoint() in app/diagramdata.c. Problem is, > that loop goes over all objects in a layer, so we can't afford to spend a > lot of time there. Well, we can