Re: how do you rotate an object?

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb nyu edu>]

"Robert Campbell" <rob campbell visto com> writes:

> Dia cannot arbitrarily rotate objects, as is noted in the FAQ at
> www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html.  
>
> I believe this very question, with regard to logic gates, has come up
> on the mailing list before.  Someone who needed these rotated shapes
> would be doing many people a favor by taking the time to create and
> add them to the logic sheet.  

OK.  I will try to do this.  I have done the buffer so far creating
buffer_left, buffer_right, and buffer down.  (The original buffer
points up.)

My non-english languages skills are not good enough for me to do any
translations, so I would ask someone to add the equivalent of
``pointing up'' ``pointing down'', etc. to Logic.sheet when I finish.

I used dia (naturally) to create the png icons, but don't know how to
make them light up on mouse-over they wa the original buffer.png
does.  If someone could tell me how that is done, I will do it.

Is someone willing to test my results?  Once the buffer is considered
acceptable, I will move on to the others.  I suspect that if there is
something that I am doing wrong, the error will occur in all the
shapes so I would prefer to catch it now.

README-ajg contains.

  CHANGES

  sheets/Logic.sheet: Added entries for Buffer_{down, left, right}

  shapes: Created buffer_{down, left, right}.{shape, png}


  TODO

  sheets/Logic.sheet: Correct fr and nl entries for Buffer_{down, left, right}

  shapes: Rename existing buffer.* to buffer_up.*

  Improve my png files so that they light up on mouse-over.

  Do the other logic shapes.

allan