Re: The central connecting point (was: Re: 0.93-pre1 is out!)

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 18:26, Philippe Biondi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Lars Clausen wrote:
>
> > This time, if anyone feel like doing real development during the release
> > process, we shall make a 0.94-devel branch.
>
> When (in time) do you think the following improvement would be ready :
>
> The central connection point :
> - each object has, by default, a central connection point
>   ==> any image can be imported as is and can be used quite decently
> - this central CP can be used to connect as many lines as needed
>   ==> this resolve the lack of CP for some objects, or for
>       exceptionnal cases where you need 50 connections to the same object
> - the line can be either :
>   + cut in real time to its intersection with the bounding shape
>   + or overlayed by the image (we can see it reach the center through
>     transparent parts of the image)
>   First solution has a better rendering, but I'm not against the second
>   as a prototype.
>
> I'd really enjoy to see this feature quickly get in, because I think it
> could help dia become a killer app in network admin teams : I've
> experienced the magic combination : snmp+python+graphviz+dia, and this
> point is the only thing missing for automatic network discovery and
> representation.

Obviously not in 0.93, but it's one of the things I would like to do
next.  I'm not adverse to patches, of course.  I'd like to do object
highlighting first, though, so that you can see what object is being
targetted.

-Lars

-Lars