Re: New shapes are wrong zoom

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 11.02.2006 13:53, Paul Kroculick wrote:
> I ran my test again using an icon that I didn't
> create, and the icon appeared at 11x the size that was
> in the shape file.  Also, the elem height and width
> was different between the two icons.
>
> 1. From my experiments, it looks like the dragged
> icons are not appearing with a fixed magnification
> level (i.e. not always 6x, or 11x, etc).
>
> 2. From my experiments, it looks like the dragged
> icons are not appearing with a fixed elem height and
> width (i.e. the shape is resized to be 1x1).
There is some more logic involved than only the default
size, which is 2x2. But that's intended behavior
rather than "wrong zoom".

> I don't want my users to have to resize.  I want the
> dragged shape to be the same size as in the shape
> file.  Does anyone know how I can do this?
Currently there is no concept of fixed size custom shapes
that I know of.
The code in question is in objects/custom/custom_object.c
custom_create(). It may be possible to introduce the concept
of preserving size for some elements to fit your needs
without breaking a lot of already existing shapes (use cases).

I would start looking into 
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/dia/doc/custom-shapes?rev=1.7

Maybe what you want can be done by aspectratio="range" which apparently
isn't used by any of the included shapes yet. So beware there could
be bugs in the implementation ...

        Hans

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