Re: Problems creating new SHAPES

["Emil G" <evg_bul hotmail com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the help. That solved the thing.

However, I strictly followed #28 in FAQ:

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Extending Dia
  1.. Q: How do I add new shapes/sheets?
  A: An explanation is given in doc/custom-shapes in the source distribution
on how the shape format works.
However, Dia now also has the capability of exporting a diagram as a shape.
Each collection of shapes (called a sheet) should be kept together in a
subdirectory of ~/.dia/shapes, e.g, ~/.dia/shapes/Engines. To make a shape,
first design it in Dia. Then export it into your subdirectory. Two files
will be generated, a .shape file and a .png file (the icon). Next update the
corresponding sheet file in ~/.dia/sheets, in this case called
Engines.sheet. Example contents of a sheet file is:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- xml -*- -->

<sheet xmlns="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia-sheet-ns";>
  <name>Engines</name>
  <description>Mechanical Engines</description>
  <contents>
    <object name="Engines - Gas">
      <description>A gas engine</description>
    </object>
  </contents>
</sheet>
Each new object should be added to the sheet by adding an object section.
Next time you restart Dia, the new objects should show up in the list of
sheets.

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and there is not mentioned, that something should be changed in shape file.
May be it should be corrected.

I could not find what is error by myself, you know that on Windows, there is
no console ouput.



Best regards and many thanks

Emil Genov

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyrille Chepelov" <cyrille chepelov org>
To: <dia-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Problems creating new SHAPES


> Le Thu, Feb 14, 2002, à 06:18:23PM +0200, Emil G a écrit:
>
> shapes should begin with this
>
>
> <shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns";
>        xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";>
>
> not
>
> >    <shape xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";>
>
>
> Normally, dia complains about that in the log window.
>
> -- Cyrille
>
>
> --
> Grumpf.
>
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