On Jul 26, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
Hi. At 2008-05-07 22:06:01 +0200, lars raeder dk wrote:this is probably the dummest question one can ask but I was not figure out to find the option to enable shadows on shapes. [...]Ah, but the About picture is a fake:) There is no such option at themoment, but a lot of people would applaud whoever were to implement it.I need drop shadows too, and although I'm not really familiar with Dia or GTK, I would like to at least try to implement them, if anyone has advice about how best to proceed.
Take a look at how highlighting is done, you may be able to adapt the method to drop shadows, i.e. have a round of drawing drop shadows for those objects that have them before the round of drawing the objects themselves. However, some exporters may have a different idea of how drop shadows are best represented. Since highlighting isn't exported, the highlight algorithm doesn't have that problem.
Could it be done with a Python plugin, perhaps?
I'll leave that for Hans to answer. -Lars