Re: Problem with user-created shapes with <svg:text>

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Scott Frazer wrote:
> I'm trying to create some shapes with <svg:text> elements and I'm having
> some trouble.
>
> I wrote a Perl script to scan through Verilog files and create Dia shapes
> from the module definitions.  Essentially they are boxes with the
> input/output port names inside and a connection point next to each port,
> plus a text box on top for the instance name.  Then you just drop them on
> a diagram, "wire" them up, and get a nice neat drawing of your design
> with little manual effort.
>
> So the script writes out the shape files and a sheet file, I move them
> over to my ~/.dia directories, start up Dia and there they are.  I drop
> them onto a new diagram, resize/wire them up and save the file.  No
> problem so far.  However, when I try to open the file Dia throws a
> segmentation fault.  After a little bit of poking around, I found that
> Dia didn't like the <svg:text> elements I had in the shape files.  That
> is, if I got rid of all them, the diagram would open up just fine.  Of
> course it's a basically worthless diagram now!  By accident I discovered
> that if I open a new diagram, put one of each shape on it, THEN open the
> saved file it's OK, text and all.

I can reproduce it with the CVS version, but don't have time today to look
into it.  Could you file a bug report on it?  Looks like some field related
to text is only properly initialized when the object is created rather than
loaded.

-Lars

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