midpoints and connectors

[Paolo Bernardi <>]

Hi,
one question about lines that point toward to midpoints,
but end at the edge. If I understnad the issue: lines coneected
to midpoints behave like those in RationalRose (...in the hope you
experienced it).
(A nice feature like that could be useful when I apply the layout
calculated by GraphWiz "importing" it in my diagrams)

first question: I'm using dia 0.94, but lines dont't end at the edge
(I tryed with Assorted shapes). Am I missing something?

Maybe I can find the feature in the latest sources?
In this case I'm in trouble because I can't find Makefile.in(s) and the
other stuff required to configure and make the binaries.


> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:03:06 -0700
> From: Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>
> Subject: Non-coder contribution:  Adding midpoints to shapes
> To: discussions about usage and development of dia
>         <dia-list gnome org>
> Message-ID: <1113631386 6902 4 camel linux site>
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>
> Here's a specific piece of work that non-coders can do for Dia:  We
> recently added the concept of midpoints to shapes, whereby a shape with
> a midpoint defined can be connected to by dragging a line to anywhere on
> the shape, and the line will point towards the midpoint, but end at the
> edge.  However, almost all shapes have no midpoint defined for them,
> which we'd want to get fixed before the next release  Bug #300799 at
> bugzilla.gnome.org is the coordination point for this.  Please let me
> know if you can help.
>
> -Lars
>
> --
> Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>