DIA: improving existing and developing new templates
I would like to change/add functionality to some existing DIA templates and possible create some new ones. How is this done, and what is the best resource for learning how to do it? Thanks, Darryl C. ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: DIA: improving existing and developing new templates
Le 07/02/2013 16:59, darrrylctx a écrit : I would like to change/add functionality to some existing DIA templates and possible create some new ones. How is this done, and what is the best resource for learning how to do it? Dia format uses a subset of svg 1.1 specification from W3C. For the static ones you would author by hand or in an svg editor, the easiest way is to follow the custom shapes chapter provided by the manual :) In short, custom shapes are an svg 1.1 xml subset, which is embedded in a shape xml tag with, at option, one text tag. For dynamic ones (what you have eg with lines or UML), the current way is C programming. Any shapes set can be ~sorted in sheets, which are also xml. There are also a menu item in save as to export a diagram as a shape, and a button opening a toolbox to edit sheets. This last method is limited to your home directory, especially for sheets. Best Regards, and good authoring, TSFH ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Re: DIA: improving existing and developing new templates
Hi Darryl, On 07.02.2013 16:59, darrrylctx wrote: I would like to change/add functionality to some existing DIA templates and possible create some new ones. How is this done, and what is the best resource for learning how to do it? I guess that you're talking about Dia shapes - step-by-step instructions how to add your own shapes to Dia can be found under http://dia-installer.de/howto/create_shape/index.html.en Regards, Steffen ___ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
