On Mon, 8 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im working on that.. Entities and relationships have a more
compact notation and it's now possible to add typed attributes
in each entity box. Im struggling to get generalizations work
in a nice way (ie: if A is parent of B and C, i want a
single line coming out of A, not one for each specialization),
but apart from that I think it's more or less usable. I'll
upload my hack somewhere.. Im still working on the physical
model generation et all, tho.
--
Alfredo
>
> That's my interest in Dia as well. I'm hoping to create a "Derwin"
> plug-in to achieve the functionality of ER-Win, including auto schema
> generation. The existing ER stuff is very true to the model in
> C. J. Date's book, but ER-Win has a notation which is not so
> cluttered.
>
> The problem is, of course, time.
>
> In the interim period, I'm "stealing" symbols from the UML section, so
> that I can annotate the entities.
>
> I've never coded GNOME, or GTK+ stuff before; how difficult would it
> be to add the "text" of a custom object (objects/custom/*.[ch])?
>
> It would be very handy, I think. It looks trivial to do for someone
> who is familiar with this. Is there a reason not to?
>
> Nice job!
>
> > I've just started using Dia. I like it. It did segmentation fault
> > on me a few times so I'll have to see whats causing that - mostly
> > when I try to enable the anti aliasing checkbox.
>
> > I'm interested in using it for mostly database design using the ER
> > symbols. Its looking good. I hope that the participates symbol can
> > be improved to support adding the symbols for optional and mandatory
> > single and multiple participation between the relationships and the
> > entities. Maybe there is already a way to do it and I'm just not
> > seeing it?cl
>
> > I like the GIMP style with layering even! Very nice.
> >
> > --
> > Robert B. Easter
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
> -Erik
>
> Erik Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
