another question on custom shapes

["John B. Pormann" <jpormann ee duke edu>]

How do I create custom shapes that have internal variables -- sort of like 
the UML and GRAFCET sheets?

Something where the "Properties" dialog box would have some extra bits in
it that the user could set (and would be placed in the output file in some
identifiable form).  All I would need is a direct pass-through -- if the 
user enters "xyz" for variable "foo", then nothing in Dia changes, just 
the output will have <xml:something ... name="foo" value="xyz">, or 
somesuch.

There don't appear to be any such shapes in the /usr/share/dia area, so
I'm guessing this is something that requires more than just a shape and
xpm file?  perhaps a plugin?


                                        John


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