Re: PATCH: ellipse.c : central connection point

[Grégoire Dooms <dooms info ucl ac be>]

Alan Horkan wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Gr?goire Dooms wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:58:58 +0100
> > From: "[ISO-8859-1] Gr?goire Dooms" <dooms info ucl ac be>
> > Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> > To: dia-list gnome org
> > Subject: PATCH: ellipse.c : central connection point
> >
> > Hello,
> > as I often need to connect an arrow from  the center of a circle (e.g.
> > to draw graphs), I send you this patch.
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> Would it be possible to do this in a more generic way and automatically
> have a centre point for all objects?
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I'm not very accustomed with the dia source code, but
element_init(Element *elem, int num_handles, int num_connections) makes 
me think this is not a trivial patch.

> (I'd love to be able to directly use unmodified SVG
> files could be used as shapes and
> have a single automatically generated connection point at their centre)
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This is a lot simpler: my previous patch is easily transposable to 
objects/standard/image.c

Best regards,
--
Grégoire Dooms.