On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 08:26:07 AM Zander Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 20:53 -0400, rhkramer--- via dia-list wrote: > > On Monday, May 20, 2019 04:42:48 PM Zander Brown wrote: > > > Personally I'm on-board with this kinda bodge-job, esp if it makes > > > use > > > of dia! I mean with all the other outstanding work I'm not going to > > > rush to implement stuff that makes this easier but I do kinda like > > > it > > > > > > Protractor/Ruler is a pretty neat idea though which could be > > > interesting and "measure" has been requested in the past, > > > definitely > > > worth investigating at some point > > > > By googling I found several things that were essentially "virtual > > protractors" > > -- here are two I put in my "notebook". Note that the first does not > > display > > an image of a protractor (and may only measure angles from the > > vertical, which > > may mean that you have to measure two angles and find the > > difference. The > > second displays an image of a protractor. There are others, some > > that only > > > > work in specific applications (e.g., in the Chrome browser): > > * [[ > > > > https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosprotra > > ctor.sourceforge.net%2FProtractor.html%5D%5BSimple&data=02%7C01%7C%7C > > 404d3dfd51ea4aa05b0208d6dd86d0b5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7 > > C0%7C636939968428283799&sdata=hZwGgngihi%2F6aLQ6s0FMTElQBXFneSyq1FVm7 > > IkyBac%3D&reserved=0 on-screen > > protractror.]]--afaict, it doesn't show an image of a protractor, > > iiuc, you > > just define some points / lines and then you get the angle, it needs > > Java, at > > least JRE 1.7. > > ` > > On-Screen Protractor is a simple java application that allows to > > measure an > > angle on the screen. > > Originally the program was conceived to assess the angle between > > north and a > > given point on any map open on the screen, therefore the background > > of the > > application window is transparent and the angle is measured from the > > positive > > y-axis and clockwise. The application allows to move the origin of > > reference > > axes and to rotate the axes as needed. > > ' > > > > * [[ > > > > https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fredbridg > > eserc.org%2Fresources%2Fentry%2Fvirtual-protractor%5D%5BVirtual&data= > > 02%7C01%7C%7C404d3dfd51ea4aa05b0208d6dd86d0b5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaa > > aaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636939968428293804&sdata=F2rtsuCmu0kajgcd5shJxnyNMk > > EZlMU2hdvA0WvwW2k%3D&reserved=0 > > > > protractor]] -- this one shows an image (iiuc), not sure of software > > requirements > > I mean it shouldn't be too hard to implement in Dia as the diagram > already has defined physical dimensions AND we know the scale at which > it's being rendered, just need to hook into that > > Of course this would be implemented in C as aside from being complex to > integrate Java is horrible, esp when we want to be packaged for > Win/macOS > > Really it's just needs to be another overlay like selection boxes > > Unfortunately I just don't have time ATM to work on that right now, > focus is on issue backlog and modernisation rather than new features
I can understand that ;-) Thanks for the response! _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
