On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Fair enough, I shall wait. If I were in the position to lend some code,
> I certainly would!
>
> From a futures perspective, I would vote against smart-routing of lines
> as implemented in Visio. It has been my experience that the smart router
> is more of a bother than a help; I'd much rather place the lines myself
> and not come back to find that the tool as rearranged them for me. This
> is particularly annoying when one makes a slight move to one object and
> the router then disturbs a number of unrelated connections. If you do
> build such a router, perhaps it could be an option that could be enabled
> or disabled by the user.
I would certainly want a lot of manual control over such a system. I
imagine something like this: With Autorouting turned on, Dia finds an
"optimal" route when a line is created. After that, the line is normal.
Then you can choose to re-Autoroute them later. Also, there are probably a
bunch of parameters to the routing algorithm that you could twiddle with.
Even if we do have 'continuously autorouted' objects, there should probably
be a treshold of change before they are re-routed. Thus it wouldn't
reroute until the current route 'looks' really bad. But until we have a
routing algorithm, we can't really say much about this.
-Lars
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