Re: Working towards 0.95

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, wen wrote: > > > Maybe you could compile the current cvs or a recent snapshot (i > > > understood that you did not yet)? > > > > I've just checked out the source, but I need to generate the file > > 'configure'. what's the command? Or maybe someone can point to where > > this

Re: 0.95-pre1 Problem printing in Windows.

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Rob McDonald wrote: > If I go into Page Setup and set the Dia margins to zero all the way around, > Dia prints to an appropriate scale. > > However, if I set typical margins (say 1" all around), Dia scales the page > up to fill an entire piece of paper. (Despite Scale: set to

Windows installer: Entry in Dia "Start"-menu for uninstall?

Hi Today as I was switching between Dia 0.95-pre1 and 0.95-pre2 for Windows, I thought that maybe it'd be a good idea to automatically get a shortcut in the "Start"-menu entry for Dia that goes to the uninstall command. just a thought /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: nudge an object?

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Michael Ross wrote: On 5/18/06, Anthony Ettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to nudge an object with the up/down/left/right arrows? I vote for that. Yes, pretty please. (I know two other drawing programs where the arrow keys move things rather than scro

Re: Maybe I'm missing something

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Jim Clark wrote: I would love to see the nudge function implemented. But I would never want it to include attached lines. Why? Because I never have any! I'm having problems parsing this. If you never have any attached lines, why would you care if attached lines were nudge

Re: resizing objects to the same size

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Len Makin wrote: Hi Lennaert, Under "Edit" there is a "Duplicate" function for creating another object exactly the same size as the selected one. Is that what you wanted? Cheers, I don't know what Leonard needs this for, but I know of a user case where I'd like somethi

Re: bugs in Dia for Windows

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Jim Clark wrote: So the grumps appear from nowhere, write a laundry list of complaints and disappear. Well I use Dia regularly for real work, and it does precisely what I want as I want. I also use for real work, but this particular grump I found quite helpful. As a matt

A small annoyance regarding 'paste'

I'd just like to share something I find annyoing with Dia. When I paste objects (using Ctrl-v), they appear somewhere up at the top left of my diagram. This usually results in me having to move the mouse a long distance in order to get the insert object to where it should be. Other drawing prog

Re: A small annoyance regarding 'paste'

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > An interesting point about the first poster's advanced idea is that it > could incorporate your idea about placing on top. > ...about the paste happening. The current CVS has an offset from the > previous paste of the same object, so it's got feedback

Re: Installation problems DIA

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, James McNamara wrote: > I have downloaded and installed DIA and receive this error message when > trying to launch the programme; > > "This application has failed to start because libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll was > not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." D

Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

Is there some drawing, documentation or method that shows off all the available shapes next to each other? I would then like to print this view to have next to my machine as a cheat sheet. (Ideally, there should also be some explanation of their purpose, although that could be separate document

Make Dia not start multiple instances?

Is there a way to keep Dia from starting multiple instances? When it will (again) be possible to double-click on a .dia-file to open that drawing, I wonder if there is a way to prevent dia from starting multiple instances. regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > > is outdated by now. And it does not contain explanations. > > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dia/samples/all_objects.dia?rev=1.1&view=log It seems to have bene last modified three years ago...? > That file is mostly for internal use, to be able to see t

Re: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 17:48 +0200, Steffen Macke wrote: > > Dear Christian, > > > > > Is there some drawing, documentation or method that shows off all the > > > > The CVS repository contains an all_objects.dia example file, though I > > think that this

Why is Dia not mapped to .dia-extension in Windows?

Hi My installation of Dia 0.95-1 did not map itself to the extension .dia, nor did it do so on another Windows machine I installed it to. Is this a know bug? cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

> it is outdated by now. And it does not contain explanations. It is outdated, unless there is an automatic script for generating this I'll see if I can do anything about it. cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr__

Re: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Steffen Macke wrote: > > > it is outdated by now. And it does not contain explanations. > > > > It is outdated, unless there is an automatic script for generating this > > I'll see if I can do anything about it. > > Christian, this file was manually created and as you noted, n

Re: Why is Dia not mapped to .dia-extension in Windows?

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Steffen Macke wrote: > > My installation of Dia 0.95-1 did not map itself to the extension .dia, > > nor did it do so on another Windows machine I installed it to. > Are you using the same user account for running dia as for the > installation? Does this user have administrat

Re: Make Dia not start multiple instances?

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Steffen Macke wrote: > dia-win-remote.exe allows to open dia files in the same instance. For > the time being, the code is in the CVS repository. I can send you a > binary if you need. The next dia release will include the file and the > necessary registry settings. There i

No EML shapes?

I just noticed that my Dia (0.95.1, Windows) doesn't have any EMS shapes, is this the way it should be?? regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org h

Re: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > That file is mostly for internal use, to be able to see that the objects > look ok after changes. While all objects are there, in order, they have > no explanations whatsoever. But take a look -- it's probably way more > objects than you want to have

Re: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > > It certainly is way more than I'd like... it ends up being 36 pages. > > Anyway, I thought I send it to you somehow, any preferences? > > Mail it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the mailing list. I used my head and simply put it here: http

Re: No EML shapes?

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 17:29 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I just noticed that my Dia (0.95.1, Windows) doesn't have any EMS shapes, > > is this the way it should be?? > > Yes, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347894 -- a new set > co

Printing strangeness with Dia 0.95.1

I get slightly different scalings of my printed diagram depending on how I print it. This is with Dia 0.95.1 for Windows. If I first print the document to PDF (using Adobe), and then print the PDF to the printer (a Brother MFC-7820N), everything is fine. The diagram contains scales that come

Embedding an image in a diagram?

Is there a way to embed an image in a diagram? I know about the image object, but that uses a path to an external image. Since I would like the diagram to be correct on both a windows and a linux system, I obviously get into problems with the path then. So, is there a way that I can embed the

Re: Embedding an image in a diagram?

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: Nick Moore said: The only possible way would be to embed the image in the file format (á la Open Office - try changing an odt file into a zip file and opening it - odts are just zip files containing XML and images). However, that would require a re-write

Re: LaTeX Text Integration

One for GAIM (laugh) http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-latex (C) Not sure why you laugh.. when chatting "math", that'd be great. Thanks for the tip. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr___

Diagram footer

The diagrams I create at work must have a footer with information about the diagram. This is typically information such as: * Title - E.g. "Satellite system block diagram" * ID- Drawing ID, e.g. "SMX-nnn" (a "series" and a number) * Revision - E.g. 'A' or '2' * Date

Re: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: A few comments: A few? :) Guess I got carried away... * Something that was quite annoying is that some shapes take up a much larger area than they appear to do on screen. Something that happened frequently was that I got one or two extra blank p

Help for shapes (Was: Diagram or similar that shows all shapes?)

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: Oh.. that reminds me. Is there some kind of datafield for a shape that lets you attach some kind of description/documentation to it? It would be quite nice if you could get "help" for a shape. I frequently find that I don't know the intended purpose...

Re: more accelerator keys related thoughts

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: already taken, I would propose Alt+N (I don't have a particular good reason for it, just that it's unused and close to M. But maybe someone can come up with a better suggestion?). Alt shortcuts are actually bad, as they clash with the keyboard menu navi

Re: Moving to live.gnome.org

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: I'm getting very tired of the cumbersome way the current web page is updated (checking out all of the www.gnome.org webpages???), so upon discovery of the live.gnome.org Wiki, I have begun a transition to have our homepage entirely there. I have moved

(Fwd) Single-instance support on Windows

From another list (about) LyX, I saw a description on how it might be possible to add support for a single instance. Maybe it's useful for Dia? Anyway, I've just copied below just in case. /Christian Here is a detailed descripti

Shape strangeness

I've created a shape by exporting from Dia. After som manual fiddling with the shape I got closer, but I still have two problems: * When inserting the shape, it has the wrong size (roughly half the size). How can I set the size explicitly? (I don't want to have to resize it manually all the

Shapes with overly large boundaries

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Something that was quite annoying is that some shapes take up a >much larger area than they appear to do on screen. Something that >happened frequently was that I got one or two extra blank pages, >simply because a shape extended i

Re: Embedding an image in a diagram?

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: Nick Moore said: The only possible way would be to embed the image in the file format (á la Open Office - try changing an odt file into a zip file and opening it - odts are just zip file

Re: Dia VDX plug-in 0.8

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, Well, I'm hoping getting the prerelease in the hands of more people (especially Win32 people - Steffen?) will get more banging on your code. I packaged Prerelease 2 yesterday, but I'm having problems with the upload. I hope I'll manage the uploa

Re: Dia 0.96-pre3 for Windows

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: I uninstalled Dia 0.95, then installed GTK+ 2.10 followed by Dia 0.96-pre3. It still does not associate .dia-files properly with Dia. Instead, double clicking gives me a dialog for 'open with', where if I check the box for 'always open with...', then

Dia 0.96pre: Strange '%s' in a popup/dialog

With Dia 0.96pre/Windows, Swedish locale, I have a suspicious '%s' in a "popup/dialog". It is the poput you get when clicking to select a different sheet of shapes. Here's the text in the popu Blandat UML --- Diverse --- %s Användarbland

dia0.96pre: Minor text bug

I've noticed two strange things when editing text. Here is the first thing: 1. Open the diagram http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/dia/bug1.dia 2. Click on the text 3. Press END to get at the end 4. Press BACKSPACE to try and delete the last character Nothing happens, except it says that the d

0.96pre. Location of pasted objects

I noticed that there's a beginning of something clever as to where an object you copy and then paste is inserted. However, it's not working so great at the moment. I think it should at least be disabled by default. Here's what happens if I do: 1. Copy an object 2. Press Ctrl-v to insert an obje

dia0.96pre: Crash when moving/clicking vertical switch

I've found a crash that's quite easy to reproduce in dia0.96pre in Windows. 1. Open the diagram http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/dia/bug2.dia 2. Select everything by pressing Ctrl-a (this selects 3 objects) 3. Copy the selected objects by pressing ctrl-c 3. Paste the copied objects by pressin

Aligning center of circle to grid point?

How can I draw a circle so that its center is aligned with a grid point? (I'm using snap-to-grid). What I'm trying to achieve is a small black dot to put on intersections of lines. As the lines are usually drawn between grid points, the intersection will also be on a grid point. As an aside,

Re: Metapost - text alignment

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Rob McDonald wrote: For example, DIA doesn't know how to calculate the width of the following string. $c^2=a^2+b^2$ Sorry for butting on this thread, but it just struck me that maybe MimeTeX would be of interest to Dia? http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html I'v

Dia 0.96pre3 - minor bug with display of text in popup

I noticed a very minor bug in 0.96pre3. This is under Windows, Swedish locale. First create and save an empty file called e.g. bug3_underscore.dia Then close and open Dia again. Now go to the main Dia menu and look at the recent files that are listed. The text "bug3_undescore.dia" wil

Is there a way to draw an "invisible" line?

I know that I can set a line's foreground colour to the same as the background in order to make it "invisible". What I'd like to know if there is some way to actually set the colour of the line to "invisible"? I've used this in other softwares, e.g. Tgif, and it's quite useful. You can change

Dia 0.96pre3. Minor text bug in tooltip

This is for Dia 0.96pre3, Windows, Swedish locale. The tooltip for the 'snap to grid'-icon, and for the icon just to the right of it has the same text in the tooltip. Both say "Växlar fäst vid rutnät för detta fönster" which would mean "Changes snap to grid for this window". /Christian

Re: Is there a way to draw an "invisible" line?

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I know that I can set a line's foreground colour to the same as the background in order to make it "invisible". What I'd like to know if there is some way to actually set the colour of the line to "invisible"? I've used this in o

Re: Dia 0.96pre3. Minor text bug in tooltip

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is for Dia 0.96pre3, Windows, Swedish locale. The tooltip for the 'snap to grid'-icon, and for the icon just to the right of it has the same text in the tooltip. Both say "Växlar fäst vid rutnät för detta fönster" wh

Re: Dia 0.96pre3. Minor text bug in tooltip

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi Christian, PS. Since I don't get any response to these emails, should I just send them to bugzilla directly instead? I think yes. Issues are much simpler to track using bugzilla than with emails. I think the problem is still that none of us has s

Re: dia0.96pre: Crash when moving/clicking vertical switch

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The stuff below has been filed as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402117 I've found a crash that's quite easy to reproduce in dia0.96pre in Windows. 1. Open the diagram http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/dia/bug2.dia 2. Select ev

Re: dia0.96pre: Minor text bug

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've filed the stuff below as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402119 I've noticed two strange things when editing text. Here is the first thing: 1. Open the diagram http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/dia/bug1.dia 2. Click on the te

Re: 0.96pre. Location of pasted objects

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have *not* filed the stuff below in bugzilla. I think it deserves a bit of discussion first. For one thing, I'm not sure if this is the intended behaviour, or if what I'm seeing is a bug. /C I noticed that there's a beginning of something cleve

Re: Dia 0.96pre: Strange '%s' in a popup/dialog

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filed the stuff below as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402120 With Dia 0.96pre/Windows, Swedish locale, I have a suspicious '%s' in a "popup/dialog". It is the poput you get when clicking to select a different sheet of shapes. H

Re: Dia 0.96pre3 - minor bug with display of text in popup

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The stuff below is now filed as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402116 I noticed a very minor bug in 0.96pre3. This is under Windows, Swedish locale. First create and save an empty file called e.g. bug3_underscore.dia T

How to move an object without attached objects moving along?

I often connect lines to the connection points of say boxes. Normally when you move the box, the end-point of a connect lines move withs the box. Is there some way to move the box without having the end-point of the line moving with the box? Or is there some way to have all connected objecst

How to avoid having the properties dialog pop up *over* the object?

Is there a way to avoid having the properties dialog pop up *over* the currently selected object? This happens quite often to me, so it'd be nice if the dialog could take into consideration the location of the selected object and pop up to the side if needed. Should I file an enhancement req

Re: How to avoid having the properties dialog pop up *over* the object?

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there a way to avoid having the properties dialog pop up *over* the currently selected object? This happens quite often to me, so it'd be nice if the dialog could take into consideration the location of the selected object and

Re: How to move an object without attached objects moving along?

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I often connect lines to the connection points of say boxes. Normally when you move the box, the end-point of a connect lines move withs the box. Is there some way to move the box without having the end-point of the line moving wi

Re: How to avoid having the properties dialog pop up *over* the object?

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: I know this isn't a fix, but do you have your window manager set up such that a key combo lets you move a window by clicking anywhere in it? I rarely think much of where windows are placed anymore, as moving them around is dead easy - no time wasted fi

Dia drawing that crashes 0.96pre4 on Windows when loading

I've got a drawing that crashes 0.96pre4 on Windows upon loading. The diagram is proprietary, so I don't want to place it in bugzilla. However, I'm fine with sending it directly to one of the developers - any takers? Best regards /Christian Note to self. The drawing is in doc/system/calibratio

RE: Dia drawing that crashes 0.96pre4 on Windows when loading

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Young, Robert wrote: I've got a drawing that crashes 0.96pre4 on Windows upon loading. The diagram is proprietary, so I don't want to place it in bugzilla. However, I'm fine with sending it directly to one of the developers - any takers? When you say it crashes, are there

Re: Dia drawing that crashes 0.96pre4 on Windows when loading

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ian Redfern wrote: Is the drawing in Dia format or VDX? If VDX, I'm the best person to send it to. It's Dia. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list

[Off-topic] Re: 0.96 pre

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Young, Robert wrote: Rob. Hi Rob, IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sende

Re: feature request

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: There is no such feature at the moment, I'm afraid. It patiently awaits somebody who'll implement it. That was a very nice and polite way of phrasing it! Best regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth

Re: How to avoid having the properties dialog pop up *over* the object?

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 15:16 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: I know this isn't a fix, but do you have your window manager set up such that a key combo lets you move a window by clicking anywhere in it? I rarely t

Re: [Off-topic] Re: 0.96 pre

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Young, Robert wrote: PS. I understand Rob may not have any say over what he puts in his signature, but IMHO that kind of signature is a waste of bandwidth... Apologies for the wasted bandwidth - until you wrote this I didn't know that this was happening. Unfortunately there

Re: Pre6

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: Of course, right after pre6 came out, a new fairly serious crash bug was found: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414708 Thus there will be a pre7 once that is fixed. I urge all prerelease testers to take a look at that bug. So what you'd lik

Re: Pre6

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what you'd like is a simple and consistent way to reproduce that crash? Hmm... reading the bug reports it seems you already have that way. So this was just a reminder that: Bottom line: When reporting a bug, a simple, consistent way to repr

Re: pre7

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Then install Dia: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dia-installer/dia-setup-0.96-pre7.zip Should you uninstall a previuos version of Dia first, or is that taken care of automatically? Regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: pre7

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Should you uninstall a previuos version of Dia first, or is that taken care of automatically? Simple install over existing installations should work nicely. Though also an uninstallation should do no harm. Ok, thanks /C -- Christian Ridderström, +4

Re: error starting up diaw.exe

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Andrea Ricossa wrote: I tried to install DIA for windows in a WinXP SP2 and I run diaw.exe but i got this error AppName: diaw.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: libcairo-2.dll ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0002359a I install first the GTK+ 2.8 and then dia setup (dia-setup-0.95-1.zip

Re: [SourceForge.net Release] dia-installer : 0.96-pre8

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Project "dia Win32 Installer" ('dia-installer') has released the new version of package 'dia-win32-installer'. You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link:

Changing default behaviour of Dia when loading a diagram?

I might have mentioned this before, but I'd like to check the current status. Today, every time I open a diagram I have to change the settings in order to work with the diagram efficiently[*]. I do the following: * Toggle snap-to-grid (to enable snap-to-grid) * Disable the 'Dynamic grid' in the

Re: Changing default behaviour of Dia when loading a diagram?

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: Check out the preferences dialog, under Grid lines. Tusen tack! /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr___ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http:

Re: Bugs in 0.96 (was Re: 0.96(pre-9) crashes on Windows when insereting a line before ...)

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with the prereleases. Me too ;-) May I suggest to at least slowdown (preview|bugfix) releases enough that there is some more time to find, report and fix bugs? You mean three months isn't enough? Either we're just

Re: Bugs in 0.96 (was Re: 0.96(pre-9) crashes on Windows when insereting a line before ...)

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: IMHO, there were too many pre-releses, sometimes with an intervall in between that was too short. This discouraged me as a tester - the time was so short beween releases that I didn't feel I had the time to upgrade to the latest release. Yes, it got k

Re: Re: 0.96.1

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, In case there are DLLs missing, please also try the following GTK+ Runtime Environment installer and report the status here on the mailing list: http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/wfdownloads/visit.php?lid=109 Sorry for this. I guess we sh

Re: Re: 0.96.1

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, installed 0.96.1, but when trying to start the software it complained about a missing 'libfreetype-6.dll' for me as well. So the documentation I'm guessing I now need to install a later version of GTK. Should I get it from http://gladewin32

Types of screenshots (Was: dia-installer.de update; Support Dia)

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: * Sending sample screenshots of your diagrams (Or sample diagrams) to me (NOT the list) that we could include in the documentation/web sites. Any particular kinds of screenshorts? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: dia-installer.de update; Support Dia

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: to point to the 0.96.1 binaries. Please spread the good news. Just checking that I understand. Using 0.96.1-3, it is enough to only install that? (No need for a separate installation of gtk+ ?) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Types of screenshots (Was: dia-installer.de update; Support Dia)

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: Hi, Any particular kinds of screenshorts? Well, screenshots that we do not have on the website or in the documentation yet. So maybe not UML. Do you want screenshots of just the diagram, or of the entire Dia window? /Christian -- Christian Ridde

Re: Upcoming Dia for Windows Security release;looking for testers

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: I'm preparing an updated Dia for Windows installer to overcome a security problem in the included freetype-6.dll. I would be glad to get some feedback from testers who try out the DLL with the 0.96.1 release. The file is included in http://downloads.s

Re: Security Update: Dia for Windows 0.96.1-5 release

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Steffen Macke wrote: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dia-installer/dia-setup-0.96.1-6.exe This version includes a security update for the freetype6 dll/libfreetype-6.dll, so upgrading is strongly recommended. Please let me know if this update works for you. I've tested

Re: UI issue: Text edit mode

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: I have my doubts about what would be best for entering. My ideas so far are 1) Press "Enter" to start editing text. Pro: Frees all other keys for shortcuts. Con: Non-obvious Sounds ok to me, although somewhat non-obvious. I'd expect that clicking i

Re: Patch for Delete key behavior (for dia-0.96.1)

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Hans Breuer wrote: Therein lies the rub: How would you move the basic TextObject, then? It only has its text as clickable area. Just give it handles and let even non-resizable objects be moved by them. Maybe even the one connection it has is enough to move it? Or as in

Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

Hi, I'm not sure if the following use case for why an 'invisble' text colour is needed, but I have a vague memory that one was needed from a long time back. The use case should probably be added to a bugzilla issue, but I'd like to mention it here first (and maybe someone can remember which i

Re: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the use case. I wanted to draw a timing diagram, and used the Chronogram block. Correction, I was using the block 'Chronogram - time scale'. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr_

Re: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Michael Ross wrote: Can't you put all the "sometimes invisible" text on a layer and toggle that on and off as needed? I do that all the time with equipment diagrams now. One layer is the functional diagram, another maybe a schematic, another may have purchasing informatio

Re: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote: On 10/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I should have been more clear. In this case I always want the text that belongs to the shape 'Chronogram - time scale' to be invisible. Note that the text belongs to this particular shap

Re: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Jens Getreu wrote: Well, if text could be made invisible, then why not other things? It could make sense to have an "invisible" color -- any renderer can handle that simply be not rendering the thing in question. That way we provide much more than by having an extra opti

Re: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: It would indeed have to happen at a very different level. Both approaches have their uses, I'd say the transparent color would be easier to fit into the current UI, as it doesn't require an extra toggle button for all manner of things, and it's probabl

Colour palettes with meaning (Was: Motivation for having a 'text color' that is invisible)

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: For clarity, then: "transparent" means a color setting, while "undisplayed" means that the (part of the) object is not considered to exist for any calculations at all, including bounding box, diagram extends, parenting etc. While reading this thread,

Re: Dia image to small -

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bob Goodwin wrote: I had to use the menu item named "Portable Network Graphics (*.png)" rather than "Pixbuf[png] (*.png)." Thanks for letting us know, with your text I also was able to set the size of the exported PNG in pixels using the using the menu entry: Por

Re: DiaCze

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Alex Mandel wrote: The GPL allows for a product to be sold but only under the same GPL, which means end users need to be given the source code, a copy of the original license, which would contain the original authors information and a new license file if they modified it a

Re: Time for 0.95 pre-release?

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:56 +0100, Hans Breuer wrote: > > If you are following dia cvs [1] or bugzilla [2] you may have noticed > > the bug count almost continously decreasing in the last weeeks. > > > > I'm wondering if it's feasible to do a pre-release

Re: Dia-0.95

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You'll have to find some way of managing interem bugfix releases if > > > non-developers are going to keep using dia. ... > > > It is a wonderful tool, but I cannot wait a year for brickwall bugs > > > to get fixed. Even if there are new minor bug

Re: Dia-0.95

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sagde: > > > > -- Timothy Bogie > > > > > > Original Message > >> From: Octavio Alvarez Piza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Sent: Monday, 30 January 2006 6:38 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], discussions about usage and develop

Bug 163574

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > > It's probably old news, but I was able to reproduce this one > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163574 > > > > using 0.94 and following the steps in the report, i.e. > > > > 1. start dia > > 2. add a digitizing board from the netwo

Re: Bug 163574

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sagde: > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lars Clausen wrote: > > > >> > It's probably old news, but I was able to reproduce this one > >> > > >> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163574 > >> > > >> > using 0.94 and following the steps i

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