Re: another question on custom shapes

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, John B. Pormann wrote:
> 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?

That's not supported in the shapes yet.  I'm not sure how hard it'd be to
add, it's basically just adding another property.

-Lars

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