Re: A patch to support creating network diagrams using programs

[Aaron Trevena <aaron trevena gmail com>]

On 5/16/05, Michael Tiemann <tiemann redhat com> wrote:
> I'm writing some scripts to extract data from spreadsheets and build
> network flow diagrams.  I assumed that if I created a line that
> connected handle A to handle B that dia would figure out where to put
> the line and display it.  It did not (instead defaulting to position 0,0
> and bounding box 0,0,0,0).  Here's a patch so that locations and bb's
> can be inferred by what they connect.

If dia DTRT with lines like this it would make my life a lot easier
with Autodia, please include this patch ASAP as it would greatly
increase the ease of integration with dia files - I have tried to
guestimate where lines should go in dia when generating dia xml but
it's too arcane and I don't want to have to read C (that's why I
learnt and use perl :)

A.