DIA - Labeling arrows

2012-12-16 Thread Jim Johnson
Hi, Any way to add labels to arrows in dia?  It's a pretty critical function. Thanks, Jim___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/

Re: DIA - Labeling arrows

2012-12-16 Thread Michael Ross
Hello Jim, I am not aware of a way to do that. The best workaround is not very flexible: to use the outline text and rotate it manually. It might be useful when you can't use horizontal lines, but "critical" implies that all the past decade of users were chafing for the function. Nice thing abo

Some for Dia

2012-12-16 Thread Бамсик
Hello, Sorry for my English. I using Dia and think what program would be better if you do instrument for rotating object. Mirroring object by vertical or horizontal not enough. I using this program for electrical scheme and do some object in horizontal and vertical type a very long time. And p

Re: Some for Dia

2012-12-16 Thread Michael Ross
Many of the shapes can be flipped horizontally and vertically - right click them to access that function if it has been implemented. On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Бамсик wrote: > Hello, > Sorry for my English. I using Dia and think what program would be better > if you do instrument for rota

Re: DIA - Labeling arrows

2012-12-16 Thread Michael Ross
Another work around method is to turn on the background color of the text (regular horizontal text) and drop it over the line where you want it. On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Michael Ross wrote: > Hello Jim, > > I am not aware of a way to do that. > > The best workaround is not very flexible:

Re: DIA - Labeling arrows

2012-12-16 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Jim Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > Any way to add labels to arrows in dia? It's a pretty critical function. > > I attach text labels to lines. You can connect them in the middle node. So the procedure is this: 1) Create your line 2) Create a text object and when you

Re: DIA - Labeling arrows

2012-12-16 Thread dia
On 2012-12-15 04:34, Jim Johnson wrote: Hi, Any way to add labels to arrows in dia? It's a pretty critical function. Thanks, Jim I use UML associations and messages for this. It's overkill and a bit ugly, but it works. An enterprising soul should be able to work out how to apply those o

Re: DIA - Labeling arrows

2012-12-16 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:33 PM, wrote: > On 2012-12-15 04:34, Jim Johnson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Any way to add labels to arrows in dia? It's a pretty critical function. >> >> Thanks, >> Jim > > > I use UML associations and messages for this. It's overkill and a bit ugly, > but it works. > Inte