Re: API

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:48 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Hans Breuer wrote:
> 
> > At 23.09.2008 22:09, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Hans Breuer wrote:
> > >
...
> > > I could write a program that would use the engine.
> > I think you should start looking at the sources. I'm afaid you are
> > imagining a lot of things into Dia which simply is not there.
> 
> I had seen references to the "dia API",
> but without enough context to be sure what it meant.
> 
> > Yes. But this is quite out of scope for what Dia is meant to be.
> > You may want to look at projects like http://www.graphviz.org/
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion.

Sounds like you are talking about an API for generating .dia files.
Since .dia files are (optionally gzipped) XML files, there is no
code-based API as such. A number of programs generate .dia files, see
the page <URL:http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Links> under "Tools that
generate Dia diagrams" for some examples.  Any XML generator will work,
and there are DTDs available in the doc directory of the source.

-Lars