Re: MULTISTRING property type; red and blue crosses

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Dolores Alia de Saravia wrote:
> (Dont know if these two problems are related; neither if they occur 
> just in my equipment; I got a message about libart 2.0 which I dont 
> know how to get).

Libart is currently only needed for PNG export.  I may need to improve the
handling when it's not there -- what is the message you get?

> I am making some test with the cvs version; 
>
> 1)
> objects which use MULTISTRING property type cause segment violation:
>
>   UML - Object: its attributes  field.
>
>   Chronogram - line: its events field
>
> If I try to fill these fields, with  the properties dialog, when I 
> press the apply button,  the program crashs. 

I can get the Chronogram line to crash Dia, but not the UML object.  Could
you file a bug report about this, please?

> 2) Every text field in UML's objects renders with  two big croses, red 
> and blue which look like they mark position of texts.

These are for debugging the text layout.  The CVS version is still in a
state of flux after the change to Gtk 2.0.

-Lars

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