Re: Are contribs welcome?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 10.04.2005 23:43, Paolo Bernardi wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I'm playing around DIA and its python plugin.
> I noticed that some properties was read-only
> (like operations/attributes in UMLClass) so I wanted
> to try to hack this (after a try into the latest
> sources).
>
> Done.
It would probably best to create a bug attaching the patch
(diff -u) in bugzilla _or_ send the patch including just
this to the list.

> Now I find another problem.
> My Python program:
> - makes a new diagram
> - add some UML objects and relations 
>   (got by collecting data from other diagrams)
> - do the layout (using graphviz), but:
>   ...moving objects around the display
>   do not refresh relations.
>
> The only thing that makes relations to be visible is
> selecting (with the mouse) all the objects and move,
> then relations are updated and become visible.
>
> I guess there is no way to work-around from Python.
> Any idea?

Doesn't
        data.update_extents ()
        diagram.flush()
do the trick?

> For info: I'm working on a small-small CASE for my own
> (it's not a "real" project, but a personal experimentation).
>
> I don't know "how things go" inside a project like DIA,
> but if someone is interested on the patch that implements
> the python-to-C attributes and operations I will be honored
> to share the code.
Please do - as described above.

Thanks,
        Hans

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