Assorted Geometric shapes
- From: Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>
- To: Dia <dia-list gnome org>
- Subject: Assorted Geometric shapes
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:58:23 +0100 (IST)
Over the past week I have spent many many hours carefully
designing and crafting new shapes for Dia. Im a bit of a perfectionist
sometimes, i hope it shows in the shapes i have drawn.
a quick screenshot here
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/screenshots/dia_toolbox_AssortedShapesbyAlanHorkan002.png
and the shapes and sheets here
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/dia-Assorted.zip
Please do inlcude this sheet in Dia.
All 40 shapes produced from scratch using Dia 0.90 on windows 98. All
icons are 22x22 PNGs with transparancey, most of which i edited in the
Gimp (and mspaint).
I have plenty more shapes and templates, unfortunately I dont know when i
will have time to clean them up and create a sheet though. There are some
templates like the donut/torus i mentioned previously that simply wont
convert to proper shapes files. Looking at programs similar to Dia have
also given me a few ideas. Although I dont expect to have time to draw
many this shapes again soon i do intend to keep drawing a lit bit here and
there.
If people have any requests for shapes i would appreciate if someone would
please file them in bugzilla (preferably the person who wants the shape
drawn) and I will try and do them when i have time. It will also greatly
help me to prioritise what people would actually find most useful.
The shape export has a few problems, which i just dont have time to look
at now that my quiet week is over.
Some of the Beziergons are getting exported with no connection points,
just a closing tag
</connections>
adding in the openning tag so it reads <connections></connections> causes
import errors (or at least that is what seemed to be happening dont have
time for more rigourous testing or thourough checking although quite a
few of the shapes i made were Beziergons)
I hand edited many of the shapes as the includes duplicate
connection points. For a filled polygon i think what the shape exporter
is doing is exporting all connections points for the outline polygon and
exporting all the same connection points again for the fill polygon.
(I have a decent example of this, ill try to file it in bugzilla).
It also seems to be leaving out a connection point at
about clock position 10/11 o'clock on the polygons i have converted
to shapes (in some but not all cases i worked out the coordinates and
added them in a text editor).
This message is getting a bit long, so ill leave it at that and get back
to you all if/when i have time to bug find and (maybe) bug fix. (damned
kernel32.dll crash then BSOD i cannot even begin to explain but have had
happen several times...)
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dia/
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