Parenting tutorial?

[nbeier tiscali dk]

Hello list!

I am still confused about the parenting function.

How come that I can choose to "unparent" or unparent children" on a new 
object? And do it over and over?
How can I see if a a object has been parented, which one is the parent and 
which ones are the children?
Has this any influence, if I just use Dia for making drawings, and not using 
the drawing code to generate other code/databases etc.?

How do you actually use the function?
How can I tell Dia which objects I want to parent, which one there should be 
parents and which ones there should be children?
eg. must both objects be selected, and does it matter which one I right-click 
on?
Where is the difference between unparenting and unparenting children? My 
"foolish" logic say me that if I have parents and children, the separating 
them and separating the children from the parents would be the same!

Is parenting for all objects?
Can I mix different objects?

The parenting function may not be the most visible or obvius function in Dia, 
so I suggest that someone who knows the function makes a little tutorial. If 
it walks you through an example of the use of the funtion (take this and this 
object, do that and that to parent them, then you can do this and maybe 
that), then a lot more people will find ways to benefit from it.
Maybe it should just be part of the Dia manual.
I wrote all the above questions down to show what can go through a mind who 
are new to this parenting (I have used Dia for a few flow charts before, 
that's all)

Btw. is it me, or is the windows title of todays cvs still Dia v0.92-pre1 ?
I tried to make a fresh checkout from Dia's cvs into a new directory, but 
there was no configure script, so I tried autogen.sh which gave this error:

grep: po/Makefile.in.in: No such file or directory
grep: po/Makefile.in.in: No such file or directory
grep: po/Makefile.in.in: No such file or directory
grep: po/Makefile.in.in: No such file or directory
grep: po/Makefile.in.in: No such file or directory
patch: **** Can't find file po/Makefile.in.in : No such file or directory

and afterwards configure ends with this error:

config.status: error: cannot find input file: po/Makefile.in.in

and make fails in dia/objects

Otherwise I think Dia is a nice program. My interest is primarily for 
documenting programs with flow charts and if possible Nassi-Sneidermann 
diagrams, and who knows, maybe UML diagrams.

Nikolai Beier
(tries to translate Dia to danish now and then)