Hi,
I'm interested in a richer Entity shape, one with more properties, and
I'm trying to understand what's involved.
I read doc/custom-shapes and the list archive. It's encouraging that I
can add new shapes, but it seems like new properties are a lot more work
and will require at least some knowledge of the gtk.
What I want to know is: Does every shape with a new property set need
its own GUI support and gui<->buffer<->file code, or is there some
generalized notion/effort to have property buffers (and their
GUI representations) dervived from the XML shape definition file? If
every distinct property set needs its own supporting code, how big a
deal is that? 500 lines? 5000?
Does the gtk support defining/creating dialogs at runtime? This would
of course be a necessary feature if the shape definition were to drive
the property set that the dialog had to manage.
It seems to me that user-defininable shape attributes would be (are?) a
big feature that no other drawing tool has.
--jkl
