On 21 Jan, Lars Clausen wrote: > So you'd have to manually add the arrows on each line? Or should this be > part of the options box (both default and individual) for lines? It would be part of the line properties dialog. >> splines > I've started working on it (copying from orth_conn). Now I don't know the > first thing about bezier (so I'm very happy the drawing function is > there:). I notice that you require 4+3n points, is that because of the > specific method you use? Xfig has two splines with no such limit (at least > not visibly). But I guess I have to dig into it to figure out a bounding > box. Beziers are a bit different than splines, but there is a linear mapping between them. Try to search on the net or read some graphics book. > We should also have a generic polyline, I think. That should be even > easier than bezier, possibly they should be derived from some common > class. There is a common element of making new midpoints that they should > share, though I'd like to find a better way than Xfig's. Ok. > Except for picture inclusion, I think dia is more usable than xfig for > this. > But this is a low-priority thing. Just having multiline text removes a lot > of bother. Picture inclusion is anothen feature not done... > It's fun connecting lines at their midpoints and moving them around. Looks > almost 3D:) Yeah, i added that mostly to test the convergence of the connection updates, but it looks quite cool. / Alex
