Re: My two cents about DIA

2018-12-11 Thread Philip Troy (CCOMTL)
Hi That sounds good to me. I am not a c programmer, but I could help with documenting some changes. Phil ___ 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 a

Re: My two cents about DIA

2018-12-08 Thread Philip Troy (CCOMTL)
Hi Andrey I have run into issues with dia in the past where the resulting diagrams look "funny" because I cannot make connections between objects where I want the connections to be. If I remember correctly, dia tends to increase the size of objects when it needs to to fit text. It would be

My two cents about DIA

2018-12-06 Thread Philip Troy (CCOMTL)
Hi! I really like DIA. I have found it particularly helpful for teaching students about ER diagrams, and I also, until recently, have used it for other diagrams needed for technical reports. My wishes are: * Make it easier to add more connection points so that diagram objects can be b

Re: Forking and building a new version of dia

2018-07-20 Thread Philip Troy (CCOMTL)
Hi I have been watching these emails with some interest because there are a few things that I think would make the client version of dia a little better: * Better mac support I use dia to teach Entity Relationship modeling to my business intelligence and analytics students and unfortunat

dia2code+ dependency under ubuntu 18.04

2018-07-17 Thread Philip Troy (CCOMTL)
Hi When I try to run ./configure for dia2code+ (version 1 downloaded today) I found that I needed to run sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev for it to work. Can this be documented somewhere (for others and for when I try it the next time and forget the fix)? THANKS . . . Phil Philip M. Tro