Re: dia components

2011-09-10 Thread Michael Scheepers
> > Hi Jasper and Steffen, thanks for your replies - much appreciated! Steffen, in answer to your questions: On 10 September 2011 03:32, Steffen Macke wrote: > Could you give one concrete example? E.g. provide a sample diagram that > contains > one of the elements in question? Or just the sheet

Re: Non-transparent background for custom shapes - possible?

2011-09-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 09.09.2011 16:16, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, discussions about usage and development of dia! HB> But if you want an opaque textbox with shapes - like the draw background HB> option of Standard - Text - that's indeed not possible with resize="no". :/ That not sounds very good. Should I

Re: Dia: Why is it so hard to do simple things? dia-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 7

2011-09-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 09.09.2011 11:00, Edheldil wrote: On 09/08/2011 11:29 PM, Michael Ross wrote: It is worth noting that many people like this software and work productively with it who did not write it. [ To nobody in particular ] I have been a Dia user for quite a long time, even tried to create a new tool

Re: External "so" module.

2011-09-10 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Paul, At 01.09.2011 22:14, Paul Chavent wrote: Thank you Pierre-Louis. Is there any sample project that provide an external lib (to see how it deals with finding the dia source tree... or is there any way to install dia headers) ? Using libdia as SDK (or building Dia plug-ins outside of the

Re: Non-transparent background for custom shapes - possible?

2011-09-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Hans Breuer! >> HB> But if you want an opaque textbox with shapes - like the draw background >> HB> option of Standard - Text - that's indeed not possible with resize="no". >> >> :/ That not sounds very good. >> Should I add it as an enhancement request to the tracker? > Feel free. Ho

Re: Non-transparent background for custom shapes - possible?

2011-09-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10.09.2011 18:35, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Hans Breuer! HB> But if you want an opaque textbox with shapes - like the draw background HB> option of Standard - Text - that's indeed not possible with resize="no". :/ That not sounds very good. Should I add it as an enhancement request

Re: Dia: Why is it so hard to do simple things? dia-list Digest, Vol 89, Issue 7

2011-09-10 Thread Edheldil
At 09.09.2011 11:00, Edheldil wrote: > On 09/08/2011 11:29 PM, Michael Ross wrote: >> It is worth noting that many people like this software and work >> productively >> with it who did not write it. > > [ To nobody in particular ] > Hi, Hans, Nothing I have said has been meant as a criticism of yo

Re: External "so" module.

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Chavent
So you recommend to concentrate my effort on module integration (i work on a "sozi editor") instead of trying to do an external module ? Paul. On 09/10/2011 02:41 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: Hi Paul, At 01.09.2011 22:14, Paul Chavent wrote: Thank you Pierre-Louis. Is there any sample project th

Re: External "so" module.

2011-09-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.09.2011 00:15, Paul Chavent wrote: So you recommend to concentrate my effort on module integration (i work on a "sozi editor") instead of trying to do an external module ? Yes. IIRC the main thing blocking the inclusion with Dia was the overlong string for sozi_script. I could do that spl

Re: External "so" module.

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Chavent
Hans, On 09/10/2011 10:45 PM, Hans Breuer wrote: At 11.09.2011 00:15, Paul Chavent wrote: So you recommend to concentrate my effort on module integration (i work on a "sozi editor") instead of trying to do an external module ? Yes. IIRC the main thing blocking the inclusion with Dia was the o

Re: External "so" module.

2011-09-10 Thread Pierre-Louis Bonicoli
On 10/09/2011 14:41, Hans Breuer wrote: > Hi Paul, > At 01.09.2011 22:14, Paul Chavent wrote: >> Thank you Pierre-Louis. >> >> Is there any sample project that provide an external lib (to see how it >> deals with finding the dia source tree... or is there any way to install >> dia headers) ? >> > U