Re: Segmentation fault in the Clone view

2009-04-06 Thread Hans Breuer
At 05.04.2009 22:26, Slavko wrote: i have svn 4366 version of the Dia. I am using integrated GUI. When I do "Clone View" of the diagram (blank or not blank) and then close one of the Dialog window, Dia crashed with message Segmentation fault > [...] > (Debian testing amd64, custom builded d

Re: Formal License?

2009-04-13 Thread Hans Breuer
At 06.04.2009 16:24, Dan Wilkinson wrote: [...] I'm interested in Dia 0.96, but I cannot find the formal license agreement. Isn't Help/About/License enough for you? I know Dia is considered Open Source, but most packages still have some formal license. It is not only "considered Open Sourc

Re: Dia Licensing

2009-04-13 Thread Hans Breuer
At 13.04.2009 01:36, Parvindar Singh Dhaliwal wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to you regarding the licensing of your application Dia. Under the licensing terms and conditions, am I allowed to use your application commerciall as I am required to create flow charts and system diagrams. I would

dia-0.97-pre3 - may become dia-0.97

2009-04-13 Thread Hans Breuer
After eight weeks [1] of testing and bugfixing [2] it is time for another pre-release: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/dia/0.97/dia-0.97-pre3.tar.gz My original goal was to have a final release before the version control system gets switched to git [3], i.e. before 2009-04-16. But tha

dia-o-97: when? (was: Re: dia-0.97-pre3 - may become dia-0.97)

2009-04-15 Thread Hans Breuer
At 14.04.2009 06:57, yami wrote: Hi, So what's the predicted release date of 0.97? Not before about two weeks, more if there are signigicant bugs found which need fixing. An attempt to describe the process is available in SVN: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/dia/trunk/RELEASE-PROCESS?view=markup

dia-0.97 win32/installer (was: Re: dia-0.97-pre3 - may become dia-0.97)

2009-04-17 Thread Hans Breuer
ince it's first availability: 2009-01-24 Hans Breuer [ Start of plug-in implementation around idea "DiaRenderScript", an XML-dialect modelled after the DiaRenderer API. Currently it is only useful for debugging other parts of Dia or itsef ;)

Re: git, ChangeLog

2009-04-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 18.04.2009 10:06, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, the switch from svn to to git was mentioned on the mailing list before. > [...] > Apologies, if I missed something. I'm a git beginner :-) Me too ;) Thus I'm working on some nice win32 git gui and am writing down what I learn along the way. See:

Re: dia-0.97 win32/installer

2009-04-22 Thread Hans Breuer
At 21.04.2009 22:40, Steffen Macke wrote: [...] DRS I don't think this is useful for general consumption and it stil does not get installed on *NIX. I agree! Removed from the installer again. Thanks for updating the installer. I'm still editing the ChangeLog file. However I'm ready to do s

Re: Integrated UI

2009-04-25 Thread Hans Breuer
At 25.04.2009 17:15, Slavko wrote: hi, i compile new pre3 from git and i can't find how to switch to the Integrated UI mode. Please, has it been removed? Sorry, no. Maybe you should try: dia --help Alternatively you could look with git log or read the NEWS file or ... -

Re: Minor suggestions for Dia 0.97 pre-3

2009-04-30 Thread Hans Breuer
At 30.04.2009 11:11, Maciej Jaros wrote: Hi. I'm testing new Dia on Windows and it looks nice with that integrated UI and all, but... Yeah, isn't it nice there always is room for improvments ;) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2009-April/msg00040.html I don't see tooltips for the too

Re: Minor suggestions for Dia 0.97 pre-3

2009-05-03 Thread Hans Breuer
At 30.04.2009 23:42, Maciej Jaros wrote: Hans Breuer wrote: At 30.04.2009 11:11, Maciej Jaros wrote: [...] Second thing is a strange behaviour of new "Exiting Dia" window. Usually if one closes such windows one would expect "Do Not Exit" rather then "Exit Withou

dia 0.97 - finally released

2009-05-03 Thread Hans Breuer
After more than two years of spare-time development Dia 0.97 just got released. You can get it at http://download.gnome.org/sources/dia/0.97/ Some highlights: * High quality cross-platform print and pdf output by use of cairo. [1] * Rotated text, but only with the new "Standard - Ouline" objec

Re: Inter script updates

2009-05-07 Thread Hans Breuer
At 07.05.2009 14:46, Philip Cavaco wrote: Hello, I want to put this question out there before diving into the code. I am trying to write a python script which can update the active_display multiple times within the same script. Basically an animation. I have been experimenting with the differen

Re: Selection Inverse, Remove, Union...

2009-05-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.05.2009 12:08, Lars Ræder Clausen wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 00:19 +0200, Maciej Jaros wrote: Hi. I'm trying to translate some stuff and came across menu Selection > Inverse, Remove, Union and such. I tried this out and nothing seemed to work. I've also haven't found this here: http:

Re: export .dia independant from custom shapes ?

2009-05-12 Thread Hans Breuer
olygon and beziers line that compose the shape ? Just stumbled accross your request while searching for something else. If you are still interested in this feature (or anyone else): it got implemented for dia-0.97 as: 2009-03-24 Hans Breuer * plug-ins/python/diastddia.py : almost finished,

Re: costum line/arrows like costum shape (costum_object)

2009-05-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.05.2009 13:27, Andrea Poli wrote: Hi, I'm interested in creating custom line with costum properties like costum shape (costum_object). Is this possible with DIA without writing a C/C++/Python plugin? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2008-January/msg00033.html and http://git

Re: Using more recent Python with Dia on Windows

2009-05-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 14.05.2009 10:26, leledumbo wrote: Dia installer for Windows expects Python 2.3 to be installed. May I know why it's not updated to recent versions? I already have Python 2.6 installed and AFAIK installing 2.3 on top of it will overwrite the registry entry. I have some software (pygtk to be pr

Re: Add mockup toolset?

2009-05-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 18.05.2009 16:11, Herbert Grunwald wrote: Hi, Dia is excellent, but a feature that could be easily added and would boost Dia usage a lot is to add a mockup toolset. Thanks, but aren't you a bit exaggerating the use of mockups? Lately, Balsamiq Mockups have gained attention, Not by me, but

Re: CLI: pstricks export

2009-05-20 Thread Hans Breuer
At 20.05.2009 11:51, M. Niedermair wrote: Hi, i want to export a dia file to tex-pstricks. dia -e /tmp/x.tex -t tex dia_bsp1.dia man dia: tex (TeX PSTricks macros) but if i look to x.tex, i see a tikz file. If i use the dialog export, i get a pstricks-file. How can i export a dia file to ps

Re: How to copy the diagram into a useable size

2009-05-20 Thread Hans Breuer
At 20.05.2009 16:30, Bob Glover wrote: I create a diagram OK but when I copy it to a WORD doc the diagram is too large to be copied - it gets truncated. I have read your FAQ but don't see a solution to this. How can I control the SIZE of the doc when I copy it? The diagram gets copied to clipb

Re: dia uml hsm statechart shape

2009-05-23 Thread Hans Breuer
At 13.05.2009 09:50, Matyas Forstner wrote: Hi dia-team, here is a patch that adds a new shape to the UML sheet: this is the HSM State usable to draw the states of a hierarchical state machine. Please let me know whether you can use it. Finally I got around to look at your patch and it is (alm

Branch dia-0-97 created

2009-05-24 Thread Hans Breuer
I've just created a stable dia-0-97 branch. Future dia-0.97.x releases may be made off that branch, while development towards dia-0.98 proceeds on master. Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org --- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.-- Dilber

Re: gnome repositories over http ...

2009-05-29 Thread Hans Breuer
At 26.05.2009 17:24, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: Hi, I am trying to get back to Dia development after a sizeable leave of absence. [...] Welcome back! But I am stuck behind an http proxy. The Gnome help pages on git don't mention if the git repositories are available over http. How do I cl

Re: Default Font and Modifying Programmed DiaObject

2009-06-03 Thread Hans Breuer
At 03.06.2009 20:08, Adam Chasen wrote: I know that I can modify the default fonts by double clicking on the object in the sheet view, but is there a way to change the application wide default (currently sans for me)? When double-clicking to modify it only modifies it for my local user in .dia de

Re: Default Font and Modifying Programmed DiaObject

2009-06-03 Thread Hans Breuer
At 03.06.2009 22:12, Adam Chasen wrote: Specifically, with the link between sheet files and shapes, the Flowchart sheet refers to a Box which is a programmed diaObject, but I cannot see in the sheet file or the shapes dir how Dia knows that it should be the programmed diaObject. I don't know wh

Re: read visio drawing in a word document

2009-06-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.06.2009 13:48, Michael Ross wrote: There is no paste or import function to use. Not completely true: - drag&drop the image file in a supported format e.g. from explorer to the Dia canvas - File/Open does open bitmap formats (internally it creates the Image object you describe) -

Re: UML Association file format changes in 0.97

2009-06-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 18.06.2009 11:26, andr...@faafeng.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to sort out a bug [1] in Parse-Dia-SQL which seem to be triggered by UML Association file format changes in Dia version 0.97. I wonder if similar changes can be expected going forward, Yes, changes to Dia's native format interna

Re: Fatal print bug in Dia 0.97 for windows that causes data loss

2009-06-25 Thread Hans Breuer
At 25.06.2009 16:38, Christian Ridderström wrote: [...] In order to troubleshoot, I've reduced the diagram a lot and I currently have two versions: bugg07.dia- freezes when I try to print Is freeze and crash the same thing for you? (I've seen single rendering of diagrams take minut

Re: hyperlinks

2009-06-26 Thread Hans Breuer
At 25.06.2009 19:37, avijit ghosh wrote: I was thinking of making it more general so any custom shape can have this property when you click the shape .. For my current idea this is not generic enough ;) At least I would like to have it as generic property for all objects. See lib/prop_dict.c fo

Re: Fatal print bug in Dia 0.97 for windows that causes data loss

2009-06-28 Thread Hans Breuer
At 26.06.2009 00:19, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Hans Breuer wrote: At 25.06.2009 16:38, Christian Ridderström wrote: [...] In order to troubleshoot, I've reduced the diagram a lot and I currently have two versions: bugg07.dia- freezes when I t

Re: hyperlinks

2009-06-30 Thread Hans Breuer
At 26.06.2009 18:22, avijit ghosh wrote: Hey Hans I just had a chat w/ our coders and they are going to meet next Thursday to see if they take this on. If they do not, I will do this myself in my spare time as it'll certainly be useful. I think you are absolutely right, it would be better to put

Re: Newer python for plugin question

2009-07-17 Thread Hans Breuer
At 17.07.2009 09:16, leledumbo wrote: I already know why Dia sticks with python 2.3 for plugins due to msvcrtXX.dll issue. But I wonder why GIMP can do the same with newer python versions? Does Dia uses different plugin mechanism from GIMP? Yes. Dia's plug-ins all run in-process, so it embedds

Re: Dia shapes

2009-07-20 Thread Hans Breuer
At 20.07.2009 21:10, Nycko wrote: Hello again, whether to create shapes and add a day. I wonder if there is any way that when inserted to the diagram, has the ability to add a comment (or other texbox). I hope your answer. Greetings http://git.gnome.org/cgit/dia/tree/doc/custom-shapes#n94 -- -

Re: Old Bugs

2009-07-29 Thread Hans Breuer
At 29.07.2009 08:07, tim.bo...@gvds.com.au wrote: Ref 1.: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94089 Ref 2.: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111941 Dia Fans, I updated the tickets of the bugs at the references a few days ago as they appear to be fixed. Ref 1 seems to have been f

Re: User interface

2009-08-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.08.2009 21:11, Lars Clausen wrote: On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Henric Persson wrote: Hello, First thanks for a amazing software second.. Im a KDE user if that makes any difference and i like the user interface of the windows version much more than the linux version (Both have version

Re: Forward from http://projects.gnome.org/dia/ to http://live.gnome.org/Dia ?

2009-08-21 Thread Hans Breuer
At 19.08.2009 23:53, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, AFAIK http://projects.gnome.org/dia/ is not maintained any more To me it appears as maintained as ever, e.g. (: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnomeweb-wml/commit/?id=c06679c9ef04e003a784a2765d447172dd079d53 Shouldn't we just redirect the respective pa

Re: Importing Dia from outside of the embedded python

2009-09-04 Thread Hans Breuer
At 04.09.2009 03:59, Alexander Fairley wrote: Hi guys, Is it possible to import the dia module from outside of a running dia instance? Short answer: no. Longer answer: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2007-March/msg00092.html It would make sense to me that this is impossible, b

Re: Select all and change properties of everything doesn't work

2009-09-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 07.09.2009 23:05, Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:35:34 +0200 Christian wrote: Hi, i'm using DIA to do my diagrams at work and at home. I want colaborate telling you some stuff will be better. When you select a line( or something else) and you do "select all the same kind" (my

Re: How can I enter a degree symbol in text? (Dia 0.97/Windows)

2009-09-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.09.2009 11:20, W. Martin Borgert wrote: On 2009-09-11 09:48, Christian Ridderström wrote: I need to write an angle as text in a diagram, but I can't figure out how to get the degree symbol. In Windows Alt+, e.g. Alt-0176, usually works, but not in dia. Under Linux I press compose+o twic

Re: [this one] Dia as XML: differences between two "identical" diagrams [with attachments]

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 03.09.2009 15:10, Stephen McGregor wrote: [...] My question is : - What, or where, in the XML are the actual connections ? and, as a corollary, I thought this was quite obvious from the diff, e.g.: - What can/should I do to the corrupt-ing Dia XML to make it into non-

Re: Dia as a State Mechine Editor

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.09.2009 18:55, Jacob Arthur wrote: [...] I basically want a way to generate some simple c++ code based on the diagram, would this be better done in the source or with a python plug-in? There are currently two code henerating export filters for Dia. One using xslt [1], the other one impleme

Re: Concerning compatibility problems between 0.95 and 0.97

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Breuer
At 04.09.2009 12:28, Rune Ingvaldsen wrote: Hi, It seems to be some compatibility problems between 0.95 and 0.97, I'm getting a error message when I try to open a 0.95 in the 0.97. Giving the exact error message would certainly help. Providing the diagram to test if the issue can not be solv

Re: UML class diagram formatting

2009-10-03 Thread Hans Breuer
ago and is thus available with the most recent release: dia-0-97 from about five month ago. From ChangeLog: 2008-10-12 Hans Breuer * objects/UML/actor.c objects/UML/class.[ch] objects/UML/class_dialog.c objects/UML/large_package.c objects/UML/note.c objects/UM

Re: Bugs #570592 and #591302

2009-11-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 14.11.2009 18:25, Steffen Macke wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Bart.S! I'm currently trying to overcome the problem. Hans: Do you think it's feasible to alter process_opts() in such a way that if G_FILE_TEST_IS_REGULAR fails and g_get_charset() reports non-UTF8, we try to recode to UTF8 a

Re: Creating new shapes with "extra"properties

2009-12-02 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.12.2009 21:45, Sarah Mount wrote: Is it possible when creating a new shape to create new properties that go with that shape? Yes, documented in http://git.gnome.org/cgit/dia/tree/doc/custom-shapes For example, would it have been possible to implement the UML - Class shape in XML? No, th

Re: ID Recalculation

2009-12-04 Thread Hans Breuer
At 04.12.2009 14:08, Luis Villa wrote: Hello all, First of all, I want to tell you I think your work is pretty good! :) Thanks. I'm using Dia to create diagrams I'll use as an input to a program. For accomplishing this, I parse the resultant xml and mix it with an internal structure. I use '

Re: ID Recalculation

2009-12-27 Thread Hans Breuer
[sorry for the delay, this was meant to be sent with the commit] At 14.12.2009 17:33, Luis Villa wrote: I've also found that, when overwriting the node This shoud be --- otherwise it would be invalid XML. with, for example,

Re: Set default font size for everything

2009-12-27 Thread Hans Breuer
At 21.12.2009 04:04, Jason Heeris wrote: Hi, I'm using Dia 0.97 under Debian Squeeze. I use the flowchart template sheet a lot, and I know that I can change the default font size for a single flowchart template by double clicking on the box for that template. But is there a way to set the defaul

Re: Grouping of objects

2009-12-27 Thread Hans Breuer
At 25.12.2009 15:59, yami wrote: I'm wondering: Why the user asked such an 'obvious' question? I'm wondering, too. I guess it is because when a user selects multiple shapes, the popup (right click) menu shows nothing (because there is NO popup menu!) Good idea. The trunk version now shows

Dia-0.97.1 - bug-fix release

2010-01-25 Thread Hans Breuer
Get it at http://download.gnome.org/sources/dia/0.97/ About nine month after Dia 0.97 we felt the need for a bug-fix only release. Notable issues resolved: 570592 Cannot open or save files or paths with localized characters 581380 Consumes more and more memory over time 583533 Selection Invers

Re: Using a png or xcf in Dia

2010-02-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 08.02.2010 23:29, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Hi, I've a png image, from a gimp xcf, that I'd like to use as an object in Dia. I've tried turning it into an svg with inkscape but the xml uses an svg image tag, which the http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/custom-shapes link (found on the FAQ) does not

Re: Problem with UML Composition

2010-02-13 Thread Hans Breuer
At 13.02.2010 16:35, Felix Natter wrote: hello, I am trying to create a composition (strong aggregation) between two classes in UML Diagram in dia 0.97.1. I added a UML-Association and selected "Composition", but there is no diamond on either side, as I think there should be. Please see the fol

Re: SQL support

2010-02-19 Thread Hans Breuer
At 19.02.2010 14:40, Wolfgang Beikircher wrote: [...] But it seem there is no direkt connection from DIA to perform such 'code generations'. Anyway, I will check it. Of course there is - just not SQL - but Python, C++, Java, Pascal: http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/plug-ins/python/codegen.p

Re: print pdf

2010-05-23 Thread Hans Breuer
At 23.05.2010 19:28, Albert Long wrote: [...] However, when saving to PDF I still get characters crushed together, such as the word leonard. How do I know what version of Pango I am using here, just in case I did something wrong and I am still using the older version with the pdf issue? dia --

Re: [UI] Sheets and Objects dialog

2010-07-16 Thread Hans Breuer
At 14.07.2010 13:22, demurg...@free.fr wrote: hi, I subscribed to this list because I sent a complete mail on the 3td this month and it still not have been moderated. Fixed now. But as Steffen already said subscribing is a good idea in your case ;-) I'd like to make a couple of UI enhancemen

Re: [UI] Sheets and Objects dialog

2010-08-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 23.07.2010 00:09, demurg...@free.fr wrote: Quoting Hans Breuer: [...] Still, my point is: do you really need to create multiple custom sheets (100% custom or derived from system sheets)? This is nice, but are there any users really exploiting this? Apparently there are at least two

Re: Bug 611078 - SVG export ignores diagram scale parameter

2010-08-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 28.07.2010 01:33, timothy b wrote: With reference to bug 611078, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611078, is this patch going to be incorporated into the next release or does it need to be tested first? It certainly needs to be tested before being incorporated in the next release.

Re: Python-Scripting in Dia

2010-08-03 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.08.2010 23:13, Florian Sittel wrote: Hi Guys, I am building an application for storing data as semantic network. I would like to use Dia as of front-end. (ie, a gui for a semantic database) For that purpose, I wanted to write a python script that asks the backend for data and creates a di

Re: Dia escapes LaTeX in PGF Export

2010-08-05 Thread Hans Breuer
At 04.08.2010 17:05, Pooya wrote: [...] Any text containing special charactes, which are needed for LaTeX, will be escaped by the PGF-Export Plug-In. Yes, intentionally. See : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143414 and a lot of duplicates, e.g.: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.

Re: Remote access causes trouble.

2010-08-05 Thread Hans Breuer
At 03.08.2010 23:54, Michael Ross wrote: I have been working on DIAgrams remotely using VPN. I don't have any problem doing this with M$ Office type programs, but DIA seems to be auto-saving or something. Yes, autosaving every five minutes (if there is some change). It regularly gets "distrac

Re: Adding a Minus-Sign to an Arrowhead

2010-08-09 Thread Hans Breuer
At 09.08.2010 09:08, Pooya wrote: having in mind to build a signal flow sheet, I would like to know, if it is possible to have a minus-sign snapping to an arrow head? You can connect text to a line, but only add connections points. To have it near the arrow you probably need to add some connect

Dia-Python-Plugin for a dump sql (was: Re: Welcome to the "dia-list" mailing list (Digest mode))

2010-08-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.08.2010 09:44, fitorec wrote: I am fitorec, I am interested in develop a Dia-Python-Plugin for a dump sql . I wrote the following code: import sys, dia class SqlRenderer : [...] dia.register_export ("SQL plain", "sql", SqlRenderer()) General problems that I had not know the models, their

Re: Release schedule?

2010-08-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.08.2010 13:18, one_ele...@hushmail.com wrote: [...] Could someone please orient me as to when the next release is expected? This depends on the number of interesting features added: http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/log/ the number of open bugs: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?pro

Re: pydia SQL

2010-08-12 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.08.2010 19:04, fitorec wrote: Hello that such!, After a while of being programmed, finally finish the sql dump. My question now is: how I can extract relationships? In order to make the foreign keys. Same answer as before: look at codegen.py Hans Hans "at" Breuer "dot"

Re: Release schedule?

2010-08-13 Thread Hans Breuer
At 12.08.2010 21:53, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, Could someone please orient me as to when the next release is expected? That's up to Hans to answer. Looking back and considering that some people like to see a somewhat fixed release schedule, As outlined in my other mail I definitely don't, at l

Re: Sanpping objects to grid by middle instead of corner

2010-08-13 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.08.2010 22:53, Jon Oesterheld wrote: I'm having a problem when I have 'Snap to Grid' turned on. The object always snaps to the grid with the upper left corner node(?). Is there a way to make it snap to a side or middle node(?)? Did you notice the first attempt to answer your question? htt

Re: UML- static member function

2010-08-16 Thread Hans Breuer
At 16.08.2010 09:52, Heefan wrote: Dear all, I would like to enquire one question about UML under DIA. How do I express 'static member function' via DIA? I cannot find the function on'Operations' under UML class diagram. Does it support the function? Yes, it is called "Class scope". (Dia has t

Re: Sanpping objects to grid by middle instead of corner

2010-08-16 Thread Hans Breuer
At 15.08.2010 03:56, Jon Oesterheld wrote: Yes I checked the first attempt to answer my question. The out side of the shape always snaps by the corner. Resizing the object so that it aligns with other items that are snapping to the grid seems kinda, I don't know...odd. Aligning the position but

Re(1): Python API

2010-09-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.09.2010 12:10, Riza Dindir wrote: Hi all, I am new to dia. I was wondering if there is a document that provides the API for the python plug-in. What is available to the python plug-in developer? Yes: http://projects.gnome.org/dia/pydia.html For more information see my other reply.

Re(2): Python API

2010-09-01 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.09.2010 15:52, Carlo Calderoni wrote: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2001-July/msg00054.html here some info While this information is probably still valid newer inforamtion is usually better, e.g.: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2009-November/msg00042.html with: htt

Re: Rulers and object annotations

2010-09-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.09.2010 07:03, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote: These are basic questions. I searched the Dia help and the web and could not find anything. I would like to display the rulers around the diagram surface borders in inches. I set File> Preferences> User Interface tab> Length unit: to "I

Re: Agree on a a master FAQ location

2010-09-16 Thread Hans Breuer
website, but I still do not buy the wiki concept (for Dia's website). My last comment on that issue still had no effect. [1] So the so called obsolete website is still more current regarding the last release for about 200 days. [2] """ At 13.08.2010 19:04, Hans Breuer wrote: [

Re: How to change property sheets for an object?

2010-09-29 Thread Hans Breuer
At 29.09.2010 09:19, Riza Dindir wrote: Hi folks, Is it possible to change the property sheets Im uncertain if we are using the same teminology. a) If you are talking about the properties of sheets (i.e the containers for objects/shapes) look at the "Sheets & Objects" dialog. b) If you are ta

Re: Modify shape (SADT/IDEF)

2010-10-02 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.10.2010 11:02, Steffen Macke wrote: For some reason, the following message by Mario was automatically discarded by the mailing list software He's not on the list so you may want to CC him if you're answering: Subject: Modify shape (SADT/IDEF) From: Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:37:44 +0200 T

Re: Exporting Dia-v0.97 --> LaTeX (e.g. pstricks || tikz): Label text conversion

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Breuer
At 01.10.2010 15:20, Gökhan BAŞ wrote: Hello I have recently downloaded the Dia-v0.97 win32 and draw a picture with Labels, and exported it into the pstricks code by using the export at File --> Export command. However, all labels are considered as compiled-latex code. That is, at the Dia side, m

Re: Exporting Dia-v0.97 --> LaTeX (e.g. pstricks || tikz):

2010-10-05 Thread Hans Breuer
At 05.10.2010 14:45, Ron Wilson wrote: Maybe a new plug-in is warranted? From my understanding a new plug-in does exactly solve none of the problems mentioned in the earlier discussion. And it would be an unnecessary code duplication of about 99% of the exisiting plug-in. I am working on a

Re: Resizing the rectangular blob of UML lifeline objects

2010-10-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 08.10.2010 17:13, Mirko Vukovic wrote: [...] I could not figure out how to vertically resize the rectangular part of the UML's lifeline object. You nead to add connection points or increase the connection point distance via context menu. [...] Is this a feature or a bug? I'm not sure: h

Re: change default font size for UML/Large Package

2010-10-09 Thread Hans Breuer
At 06.10.2010 13:20, Brendan Hogan wrote: Hello, Is there any way to change the default font size for UML/Large Package? Double-clicking the icon just brings up options for Stereotype and Name, with no options for the display properties. Building Dia from git master ( http://git.gnome.org/bro

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 14.10.2010 22:08, Pooya wrote: Hi, this is a very simple question for a very simple task. This entirely depends on the point of view. But I wonder, why I am not able to do this. Mee too. Is there any trick? No. I am trying to change the length of several lines/arrows simultaneously.

Re: Change length of several lines simultaneously.

2010-10-15 Thread Hans Breuer
At 15.10.2010 01:53, Pooya wrote: Am 15.10.2010 um 01:05 schrieb Hans Breuer: But I wonder, why I am not able to do this. Mee too. So you are able to resize several lines simultaneously? Programatically: yes. I even gave some thought on how to do the dedicated "group-wise" handle

Pending patches for Dia 0.98 ?

2010-11-06 Thread Hans Breuer
Recently there are increasing requests on- and off-list regarding features already available in the development version of Dia [1]. Usually it is a good sign for the necessity of a new release, if already implemented features are requested. Now there are only few (critical) bugs fixed or open for

Re: Problem with text drawing element

2010-11-06 Thread Hans Breuer
At 05.11.2010 13:03, Vas Zor wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with shapes that use the text drawing element. [...] If I insert this shape only one time in my drawing then everything is OK. If I insert it two or more times then the text elements (in this case the "1", "2", "3") appear in wrong p

Re: python, UML, autorouting/layouting

2010-11-06 Thread Hans Breuer
At 30.10.2010 20:55, Andreas Leue wrote: Hi, I want to create some edit dialogs to automate recurring work in UML diagrams. I'm able to create e.g. new classes or comments and attach them to a selected core classe with a dependency arrow. That works, but my dependency arrow is not layouted corr

Re: Pending patches for Dia 0.98 ?

2010-11-08 Thread Hans Breuer
At 06.11.2010 21:23, Pauker, Stephen wrote: is 0.98 available for windows? Not yet - also not for Linux. In fact my whole mail was about work to be done _before_ there should be a version 0.98 of Dia. Sorry for not making myself clear. Hans Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org --

Re: Pending patches for Dia 0.98 ?

2010-11-10 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Murat, At 08.11.2010 17:18, Murat Knecht wrote: Hi Hans, do you have a deadline in mind, for incoming patches? The finish date somewhat depends on the input received. I have not estimated the time available/needed for things, which definitely need fixing, but I guess an RC at the end of the

Re: applying custom styles to diagrams

2010-11-10 Thread Hans Breuer
At 10.11.2010 09:59, niklas | brueckenschlaeger wrote: Hi, I'm trying to export diagrams to SVG, then styling them with CSS. This doesn't work right now because the SVG carries no semantics (i.e. IDs or classes). Looking at diasvg.py, it seems like in the renderer there's no access to the origina

DiaRenderScript plug-in (was Re: applying custom styles to diagrams)

2010-11-11 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.11.2010 15:39, niklas | brueckenschlaeger wrote: I just stumbled across the DiaRenderScript plug-in in svn. That seems rather useful! I have a few questions about it: 1) Why doesn't the plug-in get installed correctly w/ make install? (gets compiled and ends up in plug-ins/drs/.libs, bu

Re: Issues with printing to Ledger (11 x 17-inch) paper

2011-01-02 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.01.2011 05:01, dg1...@hushmail.com wrote: Hello, I look forward to comments about the following issues I'm having. Reminds to other issues Dia is having with the GtkPrint backen, which was made default with Dia 0.97 - see ("Blocks" for the original Dia reports): https://bugzilla.gnome.o

Re: Issues & requests - basic connector/snap/grid issues

2011-01-02 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.01.2011 05:46, dg1...@hushmail.com wrote: Hello, All of the following were noticed on Dia 0.97.1 on Vista SP2. In the following, "connector" means any of the 5 types of line objects in the standard toolbox: line, arc, zigzag line, polyline, Bezierline connection points of any 2 objects

Re: Issues & requests - CTRL-mousewheel should move mouse pointer to the zoom origin

2011-01-02 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.01.2011 05:48, dg1...@hushmail.com wrote: Hello, Presently (Dia 0.97.1), CTRL-MousewheelUp (zoom in) moves the diagram with respect to the drawing window, so that the drawing window ends up centered on the diagram point that the mouse pointer was pointing at, but, unexpectedly, the mouse p

Re: Issues & requests - View -> Zoom

2011-01-02 Thread Hans Breuer
At 02.01.2011 05:49, dg1...@hushmail.com wrote: Hello, Suggested features: View> Zoom should have an option equivalent to "one printed page." Would be easy to implement, I'd prefer "Zoom Page With" and "Zoom Page Height" though. Pathces accepted. View> Zoom should have "zoom to rubberba

Re: making a custom installer

2011-01-11 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.01.2011 15:02, Ron Wilson wrote: Hi, I am looking into creating a custom installer for Dia on Windows for my company's internal use. What's wrong with the exisiting installer from http://dia-installer.de ? Is Dia completely contained in "C:\Program Files\Dia"? User specific configuratio

Re: What determines the size of a shape when you export a diagram as a shape?

2011-01-11 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.01.2011 18:22, Chris G wrote: I'm trying to create a very simple shape comprising two lines linked by a short arc. The trouble is that when I export to a .shape file the resulting shape is *much* too big, much bigger than its size on the diagram that I exported it from. Is there any way t

Re: Why do I always get warning pop-up after adding a shape?

2011-01-11 Thread Hans Breuer
At 11.01.2011 19:23, Chris G wrote: After I export a diagram as a .shape file and then add it into one of my collections of shapes (using the Sheets and Objects window) then whenever I open dia I get an warning pop-up box saying:- Several object-types were named diagrams - xw. Only fir

Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-14 Thread Hans Breuer
At 13.01.2011 17:18, Max Wahler wrote: > [...] My problem now is, that the generated SVG is pretty nice, but there's no possibility to give the UML elements identifiers that themselves become id attributes of the generated SVG group tags. Not sure if I understand, but sounds like part of this cou

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-17 Thread Hans Breuer
At 17.01.2011 15:44, Max Wahler wrote: Ok, after ignoring the outdated SVN info on the homepage and instead checking out from GIT and learning some Python basics, I have a few questions: 1. Do I have to do a complete "make clean ; 'make clean' should almost never be needed make" after I did s

Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

2011-01-18 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Max, At 18.01.2011 08:50, Max Wahler wrote: [...} Yesterday evening, I figured out that I have to modify pydia-render.c and it works! =) Is there any reason why higher level methods like the rounded rectangle methods are not treated in that class? Simply not having the need for them ws my re

Re: Displayed page breaks?

2011-01-30 Thread Hans Breuer
At 26.01.2011 15:54, Michael Ross wrote: To Doug, I haven't checked recently, but believe the rulers always show cm regardless the "input settings" you choose. As I understand it you can define stuff in terms of inches and so on (what I call input settings), but the rulers will still show cm. S

Re: DIA SVG export

2011-01-30 Thread Hans Breuer
At 26.01.2011 09:41, Max Wahler wrote: Okay, here we are, sooner than I expected =) I attached two files to this post and hopefully, I did not edit any other that I forgot to attach. In pydia-render.c, I added draw_rounded_rect and fill_rounded_rect and declared them at the bottom of the file.

Re: Assisting Development

2011-02-01 Thread Hans Breuer
Hi Sjoerd, At 31.01.2011 22:10, Sjoerd van Leent wrote: Dear reader, I have been using Dia quite a lot, and as a Software Engineer, I like to help with development. Welcome to Dia development ;) As a user, I do have a number of wishes (including dynamic resizing in UML diagrams), but I unders

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