Re: UML fixed line width - coloured stencils

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 17:43 +0100, Bram Adams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In May last year, I used Dia to draw UML diagrams for my master thesis. 
> Everything went fine, except for the ugly, thick, bold lines which 
> constituted my UML-drawings. I couldn't change the size as was possible 
> for ordinary rectangles, so I had to cope with them.
>
> A few months later, I converted my Mandrake 9.0-box into a Slackware 
> 10.0-castle. I subsequently downloaded Dia 0.94 to check if my old 
> problems were still there, and found myself unfortunate in this matter. 
> UML-objects still had a fixed width.
>
> Today, I looked at Dia's mailing list and found out that the last mail 
> about this subject dated from July 2004, but lacking a feasible solution 
> (the #define-hack is not that user-friendly). So, my question is whether 
> something has been done about it in the meantime (in CVS that is)?
>
> Another question: are the stencils limited to black-white images, or are 
> colored ones possible?

Colored UML has been done and is included in current CVS.  Line width,
unfortunately, is still fixed.  That should not be hard to change with a
little knowledge of C, though.

-Lars

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Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>