Re: Development; other diagram types



jonni lehtiranta net wrote:

So, I figured out how to export shapes and hand-edit them for
perfection, but this still leaves two questions:
- What is the desired line width in components? What
        should it be preset to? Is there an option for
        setting line width of new objects according to a
        "preference" or changing line width of all objects
        simultaneously?

I have a comment about line width. Sometimes you want to create an invisible line. To me, it seems that specifying a line width of 0 is the best way to do this. It is possible to use lines that are the same color as the background, but that is
more of a hack because if you change diagram colors, it breaks.
In dia, a line width of zero is a 'hairline'. A user should be able to create
hairlines simply by using a small width.

- What about LINES? I didn't find a "perfect line"
        anywhere. The UML message is a good arrow but it
        doesn't snap with another line, so building L-shaped
        connections seem impossible (to do well).
        I'd also like the option to specify both a name and
        a "number-of-wires" info to an arrow and get them to
        print nicely.
I am working on line decoration code that should make it easy to specify names as well as 'bus-width/number-of-wires' slashes that stay centered on the line. I'm a bit busy, so it will be a few weeks before I can get out a semi-user-friendly version, but the code is mostly written and works well. This same decoration code will make it possible to create clock-input lines that can be stuck on flip-flops, or (NOT) bubbles that can be added to any gate input. I might be able to hack the code so that decorated
lines can be stuck together with fixed user-specified angles.  Stay tuned.

Dave Hoover.





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