Dia Test-Run
- From: Ben Gillis <bgillis airmail net>
- To: dia-list gnome org
- Subject: Dia Test-Run
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:36:34 -0000
Hi,
I am giving Dia a test run; it is very, very nice to see something out
there that can replace Visio. (I have been a Visio user since 1994, and
MS has all but destroyed it with poor quality, bugs I never saw until MS
acquired it).
I am looking to replace MS Visio as my primary drawing tool for software
development projects; mostly used for drawings, UML diagrams and such.
However, in order to do that, I am going to have to be able to pull off
a few things with whatever drawing tool I use.
I realize this is an open source, pre 1.0 release (and job well done so
far, I might add ;-) There are a couple of questions I have about it,
hoping someone might be able to answer:
1. Text in Shapes - I can't seem to select a shape, type, and have text
show up in the shape. Rather, I have to explicitly overlay the shape w/
text from the Text Tool. Am I doing something wrong? (I can't find any
text-based properties for the shape; should I assume text is not an
attribute of a shape in this 0.93 release?)
2. Programming APIs - will I be able to write programs/scripts to parse
the drawings, like Visio offers? A scripting way to do so (like Visio's
VBA, or third-generation language (preferred, actually) like C or C++
would be fantastico. Is that in the works? Available?
I will keep reading docs and playing with it.
Thanks,
Ben
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