Re: Re[2]: adding shapes: fill and stroke not honored?

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Friday, 20 September '02, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> > On Friday, 20 September '02, Alan G. Isaac wrote:
> > > As far as I can tell, Dia does not honor
> > > the fill and stroke attributes?
> > > I would very much like to use the fill
> > > and stroke attributes.  Is this an
> > > oversight or a postponement?
>
> On 20 Sep 2002 14:31:02 -0500 Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
> > Look at shapes/Logic/connector.c.  It's a filled circle.  Or do you mean
> > something else?
>
> Great hint! Thanks.
> I can now do what I want by using the style attribute.
> But is it intentional to force this and not honor the
> fill and stroke attributes?  (Section 9.3 of the 
> SVG recommendation includes these attributes.)

I'm sure that's unintentional.  We want to use all relevant parts of the
SVG specs.

> Also, even with your connector I still face the other
> problem.  Try to change the fill color of the connector.
> I cannot.  (The stroke color can be changed.)

The fill color does seem to be ignored in favor of the stroke color.  I
don't see why that happens.  Please file a bug report on that.

> PS Just out of curiosity, why does the connector
> use an ellipse instead of a circle?

Because I made them from the standard objects, and there's only a circle
there. 

-Lars

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