Re[2]: lines

[Alan G Isaac <aisaac american edu>]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:07:23 +0100 (IST) Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie> wrote:
> Make sure snap to grip is turned on

I should have thought of this,
but I almost always work with 
"snap to grid" off.  Please
consider allowing "shift" with 
lines or ellipses to constrain
the basic shapes, as this is a
very useful feature.

> As for drawing perfect circles, sorry Dia does not do that yet but i added a
> shapes in CVS that do it, you can grab them easily enough and add them to Dia
> 0.90 if you like.  Holding down Ctrl locks the shape so that it only resizes
> Horizontally or Vertically, but you probably already noticed that.  the sheet
> is called Assorted.

OK, I'll give this a try.

> (or if
> you just want a perfect circle it is not hard to make your own).

This is indeed one of the GREAT things about Dia!

> If you have any requests for shapes to be drawn please add them to
> bugzilla, maybe i will have time to draw them at some stage ...

OK!

One more thing about the ellipses:
it would be nice to have a
core ellipse object that could be
reshaped around a fixed center point.

Thanks!
Alan Isaac