Re: Dia-list digest, Vol 1 #758 - 5 msgs

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 19 Feb 2003, pvspam-dialist hacklab net wrote:
> > What we're really talking about, I think, is what two names to use for
> > these three things:
> >
> > 1.  a zipped dia file
> > 2.  an unzipped dia file
> > 3.  a dia file
>
> Unless of course you've split the world into only the first two cases.
> It's a matter of how you personally have set up the taxonomy of file
> types. If you have broken the universe of Dia files into type 1 and 2,
> then ".gzdia" and ".dia" suffice.

How about

                +----------+
                | dia file |
                +----------+
                     |
                    / \
          +------------------------+
          |                        |
     +------------+         +--------------+
     | zipped dia |         | unzipped dia |
     +------------+         +--------------+

Darn, where did my ASCII export go?

> Sometimes I really do want to edit the .dia file in a text editor.
> Really. You might not believe it, but use it to make a database schema
> with 30 classes, and you'll start to want to edit the .dia file in a
> text editor, too. Just one simple case: I want to change every blue
> class to a green one. Or, I want these 8 classes to all be the exact
> same shade of purple.

That's why I want to make even more fancy selection methods:  Select by
property would be obviously useful.  But we need the changing of multiple
objects to work way better first.

> When you are faced with eight .dia files, and you wonder which are
> gzipped (and thus need preprocessing before editing) it would be far
> less tedious if there were *SOME* indication of which were zipped and
> which weren't.

Or you could use an editor that automatically detects it and unzips/rezips
for you.

> And why do I reckon BeOS had this down pat?

Because BeOS did everything right the first time:)  Just like NeXT.

-Lars

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