Unable to open Dia properly

2014-03-17 Thread Mike
Hi. (This is a repeat of the email sent on 12/3/14. I am keen to use Dia) I have downloaded Dia and installed it OK in Windows 8.1, did some testing and closed it. I am happy with it but now I can't work out how to open it again! No shortcut appeared on my Desktop, fair enough. So I tried to find

Dia in Windows 8.1

2014-03-17 Thread Mike
Hi. I have downloaded Dia and installed it OK in Windows 8.1, did some testing and closed it. I am happy with it but now I can't work out how to open it again! No shortcut appeared on my Desktop, fair enough. So I tried to find dia.exe to set up a shortcut but couldn't. I have tried Run from the

Re: Unable to open Dia properly

2014-03-17 Thread Michael Ross
I run my shortcut with this target: "C:\Program Files\Dia\bin\diaw.exe" --integrated On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Mike wrote: > Hi. > (This is a repeat of the email sent on 12/3/14. I am keen to use Dia) > I have downloaded Dia and installed it OK in Windows 8.1, did some testing > and clos

Re: Dia in Windows 8.1

2014-03-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Mike! > I have downloaded Dia and installed it OK in Windows 8.1, did some testing > and closed it. > I am happy with it but now I can't work out how to open it again! > No shortcut appeared on my Desktop, fair enough. So I tried to find dia.exe > to set up a shortcut but couldn't. Eh

Re: Dia in Windows 8.1

2014-03-17 Thread Dumitru Ursu
On 03/18/2014 01:51 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: dia --integrated Which is quite clearly written in the `dia --help'... Maybe there should be a shortcut for that, or a menu entry? Most of the windows users have no idea how to pass parameters to a program. Dima. ___

Re: Dia in Windows 8.1

2014-03-17 Thread Leonard Boyle
I just downloaded and installed DIA on a windows 8.1 Surface pro. Windows 8.1 is a little bit split brained in that they created two parts out of the old desktop. The 1st is the new start screen with the small squares and rectangles for the app's. The second is a very stripped down version of the