Re: Properties dialog without c programming

[Jeffrey Kern <the xtype gmail com>]

Ummm... I believe that Lars answered your question in reply to Daniel.
That is, provided I am understanding your correctly.

To add your own attributes to an object, editable from the properties
dialog, simply add ext_attributes and ext_attribute entities to your
shape.
Open up one of the .shape files and add something like this (inside of
the shape entity of course):

  <ext_attributes>
    <ext_attribute name="id" description="Circuit ID" type="string"/>
    <ext_attribute name="minv" description="Minimum Voltage" type="real"/>
    <ext_attribute name="maxv" description="Maximum Voltage" type="real"/>
    <ext_attribute name="type" description="Tube Type" type="string"/>
  </ext_attributes>

And then load dia, add that shape to your diagram or sheet, bring of
the properties dialog for it. There you go! Extra attributes.

Have fun,
-Jeff



On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:36:55 +0000, Denny Beyer <denny esru strath ac uk> wrote:
> Lars Clausen wrote:
> > Denny Beyer sagde:
> >
> > > Hey !
> [...]
> > What kinds of fields are we talking here?  You have tried exporting as
> > .shape and using that to create a new object, yes?
> I did both. But I couldn't find any possibility to have a
> properties-dialog containing my own data in it. That's why I went over
> to the c - stuff! Quite similar to that what Daniel is doing, I need to
> at to an Objekt a description, a ID number and other properties, which
> describes the component technically more detailed.
> > -Lars
> Can i do that with in dia created shapes as well? How is that working,
> because this would save a lot of time by not hard coding all shapes in
> c, but just drawing them. Is python doing that as well?
>
> denny
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