labels for lines?
is there a way to stick a text label to a line in dia, to identify the relationship that the line signifies? i want the label to follow the line when i move it. [please cc: your replies to me; i am not a list subscriber] thanks in advance, -- jm3 / john manoogian III / http://jm3.net / professional thug "what would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem, and enumerated all of the dissatisfactions in your life? he would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own." -- 'In the Beginning was The Command Line' [Neal Stephenson]
RE: A couple of tweaks ...
Hmmm. thanks outlook. I'll try again. On Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:34 PM, John Hedges [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I guess this is the place to send changes so here are a couple (a week or so old, so apologies if they're already done): A minor modification to the UML class object (object/UML/class.c). It causes width of attributes and operations to be ignored when calculating the overall object width when the attibutes/operations are hidden/suppressed. Not sure whether I've fixed a bug or changed a feature though! Problems with stereotype fields in uml dependencies getting corrupted during save/open. I think it is caused by xml encoding problems and so have made some changes to dia_xml.c and .h which seem to have fixed them. John -- =_NextPart_000_01C08541.16270BC0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="class_patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 SW5kZXg6IGNsYXNzLmMKPT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09 PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PQpSQ1MgZmlsZTogL2N2cy9nbm9tZS9kaWEvb2JqZWN0 . . . File: encoding_patch class_patch encoding_patch
printer settings
I'm unable to set the printer output. e.g., I print what I've completed and the output is spread over 6 sheets (8 1/2" x 11"). I have not been able to adjust the printer so my drawing will print on 1 sheet in landscape. How can I set the printer parameters without having to use the resizing feature of Dia (trail error until output fits)? jjc begin:vcard n:Cruz;John J. tel;pager:na tel;cell:na tel;fax:na tel;home:na tel;work:na x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:tracor.com org:BEA Systems ;AEGIS AN/SPY-1 radar Program Office adr:;;;Crystal City, Arlington;VA;22202;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Radar Systems Engineer note;quoted-printable:There is a general opinion that microchips work on electricity.=0D=0AThis is not true. They work on smoke.=0D=0AOnce I broke one, and all the smoke got out. fn:John J. Cruz end:vcard
Heads-up: patent on tabbed palette
Adobe is suing Macromedia for using something they call "tabbed palette" technology, which sounds like what Dia does for the different groups of tools (or whatever you call them--Circuit, Ladder, UML, etc.). They say they have a patent on it. No idea whether anybody needs to worry; just thought you should know. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2491655.html -- /=====\ |John Stracke| http://www.thibault.org |HTML OK | |Francois Thibault || |East Kingdom|I'm a .sig virus...and, boy, am I tired!| |[EMAIL PROTECTED]|| \=/
GTK problem?
When I start dia, why do I get this: [joliver@joliver joliver]$ /usr/local/bin/dia [1] 22608 [joliver@joliver joliver]$ Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwindow.c: line 992 (gtk_window_realize): assertion `!GTK_WIDGET_REALIZED (widget)' failed.
Re: Problem with imlib
John Oliver wrote: Trying to ./configure dia-0.85 and running into a problem: Never mind... more searching turned up the references to needing the devel packages. Of course, I had to install all the devel packages for all the image packages... :-)
Now a problem compiling dia...
dia-0.85 I got through the ./configure. During compile time, I get: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../intl -I/usr/include/gnome-xml -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -DDIA_SHEETDIR=\"/usr/local/share/dia/sheets\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/dia\" -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -fstrict-aliasing -c -o dia_xml.o `test -f dia_xml.c || echo './'`dia_xml.c dia_xml.c:24: tree.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [dia_xml.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/joliver/dia-0.85/lib' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joliver/dia-0.85' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 I found a reference to getting libxmld to fix this. However, I can't find it! Mandrake has libxml but not libxmld. rpmfind.net has a couple of funky versions of libxmld. I've got libxml-1.8.7-1mdk right now. If the two need to match, where can I find appropriate versions?
Re: Dia feature suggestion
"Peter C. Norton" wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:27:04PM -0500, Ronald L. Chichester wrote: I'm sorry to say that Dia crashed X four times. The problem was repeatable, namely that when the drawing page was maximized, it immediately locked up X. Interestingly enough, this problem did not occur at all on the same machine when running Gnome. Complain to whoever wrote your X server. My understanding is that if an application can crash your X server it's more of a problem in the X server, and the application is just normally buggy. "Locking up X" != crashing X, at least not some of the time. With pointer grabs, it's possible for a misbehaving applicaiton to take control of the input and not let go. X doesn't crash, but it becomes unresponsive. -cks
Re: Problem installing dia-0.81 on Slackware Linux 3.4
Oops - my copy/paste missed a lot of the link command I tried to send in my last mail: gcc -g -O2 -o dia connectionpoint_ops.o diagram.o commands.o app_procs.o preferences.o load_save.o disp_callbacks.o layer_dialog.o display.o color_area.o linewidth_area.o lineprops_area.o grid.o group.o handle_ops.o interface.o main.o modify_tool.o scroll /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzopen' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzread' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzdopen' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzclose' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzwrite' make[2]: *** [dia] Error 1 John A. Murdie Department of Computer Science University of York England
Re: Problem installing dia-0.81 on Slackware Linux 3.4
And it did it again. Finally, here it is: gcc -g -O2 -o dia connectionpoint_ops.o diagram.o commands.o app_procs.o preferences.o load_save.o disp_callbacks.o layer_dialog.o display.o color_area.o linewidth_area.o lineprops_area.o grid.o group.o handle_ops.o interface.o main.o modify_tool.o scroll_tool.o properties.o defaults.o create_object.o magnify.o menus.o cut_n_paste.o object_ops.o render_gdk.o render_eps.o render_svg.o undo.o tool.o diapagelayout.o diaunitspinner.o pagesetup.o paginate_psprint.o ../lib/libdia.a ../objects/custom/libcustom_objects.a -L/usr/local/lib -lxml -lz -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm ../intl/libintl.a -L/usr/local/lib -lgdk_imlib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm -Wl,--export-dynamic /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzopen' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzread' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzdopen' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzclose' /usr/local/lib/libxml.so: undefined reference to `gzwrite' make[2]: *** [dia] Error 1 John A. Murdie Department of Computer Science University of York England
Nice environment but ...
Dia is a great environment. However, could you consider the following: in printer setup, provide the option to select landscape page printing. in the work window also provide the same option of selecting page size. in the work window, provide the ability to display the boundaries of a 8 1/2 x 11 page. provide the option to view the actual print-out before printing it. instead of having to print or view at different sizes (40% and 85% respectively), add "page width" etc. is it the library I'm using but none of the control keys operate? what is EPS and SVG? Thank you for considering my user thoughts. jjc begin:vcard n:Cruz;John J. x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Marconi Systems Technologies;Program Office adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Radar Systems Engineer note;quoted-printable:"There is a general opinion that microchips work on electricity.=0D=0AThis is not true. They work on smoke.=0D=0AOnce I broke one, and all the smoke got out."=0D=0A(unknown origin) fn:John J. Cruz end:vcard
