Re: Predict the size of a UML class

2002-01-21 Thread Ben Hetland
load files from other machines, or when I load files produces by older versions.) >Or anyone give me some advise on how to solve the problem? Hope this gives you some ideas... -+-Ben Hetland-+- ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Interesting interactions between objects and renderers

2002-04-02 Thread Ben Hetland
If it may be of any help... or trigger some new ideas... Lars Clausen wrote on 24 Mar 2002 18:56:35 -0600: > > When a line gets an arrow at the end, the endpoint of the line should be > moved backwards at least to the backside of the arrow, possibly to the > backside of the stem, if such is used

Re: Creating output

2002-04-19 Thread Ben Hetland
ely, but just to tell you that if you ever come to Trondheim - Norway, do notify me so we might meet! :-) Regards, -+-Ben-+- -- Ben Hetland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-04-23 Thread Ben Hetland
Adrien Beau wrote: > > As for your four operations, what about > > Ctrl+S, B (send to very back) > Ctrl+S, F (send to very front) > Ctrl+S, D (send down) > Ctrl+S, U (send up) > > I don't like "send" very much. Hmmm... In my original posting about this, I actua

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-04-23 Thread Ben Hetland
Adrien Beau wrote: > > On Monday 22 April 2002 12:36, Lars Clausen wrote: > > > > AZERTY is evil. They require shift to do numbers. I hated > > them the entire time I was in Rennes. > > Actually, putting ~#{}[]|`\^ and @ as "third class" symbols > reachable only with the AltGr key is far wors

Re: opinions on Dia...

2002-04-23 Thread Ben Hetland
Nuno Afonso wrote: > > i have Dia 0.88 and the only thing that i consider not so good in the > sequence diagram (of UML) is the impossibility of doing 'ifs' (usually > when you do an 'if' it should create a block on the life line block... Is that the "self-delegation" thingy of UML you're refer

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-04-24 Thread Ben Hetland
Adrien Beau wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 April 2002 07:43, Ben Hetland wrote: > > > > The Norwegian keyboard also has this "third class" mania... > > Some priorities are very strange, for example the so > > important @ as AltGr-2, while the ¤ (generic curr

Re: Dia's user interface

2002-04-24 Thread Ben Hetland
"Young, Robert" wrote: > > > Lars Clausen wrote: [...] > > Now's the question: Is there some more relevant information > > to put there? > > Currently selected tool? Number of objects selected (after a select > > operation)? Something? > > Current coordinates would be great (even which page

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-04-26 Thread Ben Hetland
preciate the proposed feature, but would like to have it as a Shift-Drag, Ctrl-Drag or something like that... perhaps even a drag with right or middle mouse button instead of the left one. Just my thoughts... Regards, -- Ben Hetland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list

Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

2002-05-07 Thread Ben Hetland
Well, then allow me to return you "provocation"... :-) On Wed, 1 May 2002 00:17:34 -0400, "James K.Lowden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I propose: Leave the feature on. Reverse dragging selects intersecting > objects, and Forward dragging does not. If the user holds down a Shift or > Ctrl k

Dia 0.91 for win32 PNG crash

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Hetland
If I export a diagram as "Portable Network Graphics" (.PNG), I first get a question about pixel sizes. After I "OK" this, I get an "access violation" crashing Dia. BTW, what's the difference between the two ".PNG" formats in the export dialog? -+-Ben-+- __

Printing on Win32

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Hetland
Finally it looks like the font stuff on Win32 printing looks sensible. But, when I print (using "fit to page" scaling), it still seems to think the paper is wider than it actually is (on A4), so the rightmost part (1-2 cm) gets clipped against the right edge of the printable area on the page. Also

Re: dia 0.91 for win32 cant read settings

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Hetland
Steffen Macke wrote: > > > When I change prefs in dia it saves it to > > drive:\cygwin\home\user\.dia > > but it does not apply those changes. And it does not read it from disk > > Unfortunately, this is true. The problem is that the last win32 builds are > mixing c-runtimes (msvcrt.dll a

Re: Unable to open dia 0.91 in WinXP

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Hetland
Steffen Macke wrote: [...] > > > > warning: failed to load external entity "" > [...] > If dia is not working: Which version of dia did you install before? > Could you try an uninstallation (please make sure that everything > get's uninstalled) and re-installation? FWIW, this error also occurs o

Re: Dia 0.91 for win32 PNG crash

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Hetland
Steffen Macke wrote: > One is the "old" png export function, the other one is delivered by the newer > pixbuf plug-in which also supports other rasters formats. I hope that only > one of the PNG export functions is broken so that you can use the other one. Yes, the one called "GdkPixbuf..." seems

Re: dia 0.91 for win32 cant read settings

2003-03-28 Thread Ben Hetland
Hi Steffen, Steffen Macke wrote: > > > Why is it mixing those versions, and why should this pose a problem? > > It's mixing those versions because MSVC 7 doesn't allow me to link against > msvcrt.dll which is used by the gtk+ libraries distributed by Tor Lillqvist. Strange... Does it mean it ca

Re: dia 0.91 for win32 cant read settings

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Hetland
Steffen Macke wrote: > > I think it would be best if you use the dia sources from the CVS. This will > make it much easier for you to update. OK, I'll stick with those. And I'll see if I can finally get a CVS client installed on this Windoze box too... ;-) > If the compilation instructions ar

Re: dia 0.91 for win32 cant read settings

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Hetland
Hans Breuer wrote: > Sure it can. But you should also recompile all the libs it depends > on. Or live with the problems of two runtimes. > > The c-runtime from vc7 is called mcvr70.dll with corresponding > msvcrt.lib. One gets problems with having two c-runtimes if > there is an _open() in one co

Re: Dia 0.91 for win32 PNG crash

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Hetland
Hans Breuer wrote: > At 20:48 28.03.03 +0100, Ben Hetland wrote: > >Yes, the one called "GdkPixbuf..." seems to be okay. I take it that this > >is the "new" one, then. But being given the choice of multiple ".png" > >selections was a bit

Re: Printing on Win32

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Hetland
Hans Breuer wrote: > > At 14:07 28.03.03 +0100, Ben Hetland wrote: > >Finally it looks like the font stuff on Win32 printing looks sensible. > > > >But, when I print (using "fit to page" scaling), it still seems to think > >the paper is wider than it ac

Re: Compiling dia for win32 using MSVC6 (on Win2k)

2003-03-31 Thread Ben Hetland
Hi, Michael Wybrow wrote: > > This is probably of interest to Ben Hetland, who was having trouble > compiling dia for win32 using MSVC6 (on Win2k), and to Steffen Macke, > whose instructions I used (with some modifications) to do this. Great comments! > o There is

Re: dia 0.91 for win32 cant read settings

2003-04-02 Thread Ben Hetland
Steffen Macke wrote: > > > We end up having linker instructions like > > /nodefaultlib:"dfconsol.lib" /nodefaultlib:"msvcrt.lib" > > This might be the linker switch I was looking for: > Does this tell MSVC 7 to use msvcrt.dll instead of msvcr7.dll ? Not exactly, it's telling the linker to ign

Re: dia --version

2003-04-02 Thread Ben Hetland
Vitaly Lipatov wrote: > > On 19 Март 2003 18:39, Lars Clausen wrote: [...] > > bash-2.05b$ dia -v > > Dia version 0.91, compiled 08:24:08 Mar 17 2003 > > bash-2.05b$ dia --version > > Dia version 0.91, compiled 08:24:08 Mar 17 2003 > > Dia prints version info in UTF-8 on screen, my locale is not

Re: Compiling dia for win32 using MSVC6 (on Win2k)

2003-04-02 Thread Ben Hetland
Steffen Macke wrote: > > > o It works! > > That's great news! [...] > Please try both the libart and pixbuf export filters. If some of the > problems are resolved, I would be very happy to package your binaries > into a 0.91-2 installer. Steffen, I take it that Michael's compilation might ev

Re: Easier setting of start up layout

2003-04-03 Thread Ben Hetland
Lars Clausen wrote: > > We can also compare with Gimp, which remembers the placement of all the > dialogs. I don't know how WM-friendly it is, though. Perhaps it could use its saved settings unless the WM explicitly wanted to place the windows somewhere (e.g., because it had some remembered set

Re: Modifying properties of several objects at the same time

2003-10-22 Thread Ben Hetland
Hi everybody, On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:24:19 +0200, Daniele Pighin wrote: I was wondering whether it was possible to introduce a way to be able to modify several objects' properties at the very same time, as it would be very useful and time saving, especially for large diagrams. I suddenly got t

Re: Modifying properties of several objects at the same time

2003-10-24 Thread Ben Hetland
Lars Clausen wrote: On 22 Oct 2003, Ben Hetland wrote: If the property in question does NOT have the same value in all selected objects, however, then the field should still be enabled (i.e. modifiable), but doesn't show any real value. It could also be "dimmed down" or something

Re: Modifying properties of several objects at the same time

2003-10-29 Thread Ben Hetland
Daniele Pighin wrote: Alle 14:41, domenica 26 ottobre 2003, Alan G Isaac ha scritto: To change the properties of multiple objects in a diagram, I like to be able to associate a style with them. The style defintion should be local to the diagram. Each object can then be associated with a list of

Re: Dia on Windows doesn't print or export correctly

2004-06-10 Thread Ben Hetland
Miguel Angel Garcia wrote: To James: I don't think so because I'm not only printing but exporting i.e. to eps. When I open the eps with ghostscript+gsview, the page has been cut. While I haven't had time to try the latest Dia version yet, I have noticed for some time (both under W2k and XP) that D

Re: Save an attribute of a drop-down list item

2004-06-11 Thread Ben Hetland
Cyrille Chepelov wrote: Le Thu, Jun 10, 2004, Ã 11:23:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: #Normal step# you can't have that. "Normal step" would typically be specified as a translatable constant string (N_("Normal step")), which means that in your locale, you'd actually save "Etape normal

Re: Putting some prefix to the mailing-list mails?

2004-11-04 Thread Ben Hetland
Alan Horkan wrote: There are many other things you can also filter on other than the subject line (various mail headers, the footnote that is always included, etc). FWIW; unfortunately I discovered the other day that not all mail clients are very flexible about this. Sadly I don't remember exactly