Re: Objects properties

[Denny Beyer <denny esru strath ac uk>]

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 15:20, Lars Clausen wrote:
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> Now the cool thing to do would be to extend the ext_attributes tag with a
> way to specify rendering.  For instance, if you have a tag
> <ext_attribute name="foo" value="bar" type="string" xpos="2.0" ypos="2.0"
> alignment="left"> that could mean the value entered gets rendered
> left-aligned with the left end of the baseline at the 2.0, 2.0 point of
> the shape.  That would probably be useful.  The place to look for changing
> the custom object is objects/custom.  However, it may take a little work
> to get into how it works.
Lars, i would really like to use the "value"-functionality, to have the 
possibility to append a default-value to a shape, that appears in the dialog. 
Is that feature implemented already? 
> Feedback on the virtues/flaws of this hastily thought yup idea welcome!
>
> -Lars

i started looking at things to implement it myself and spend days on the 
debugger, to get my head round how the source code work. But didn't get to 
the point and found it hard to understand what's going on without any 
documentation.
Unfortunatly i have to drop DIA to use for that specific purpose. 

Denny