Re: Connecting line to line

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 21:52 +0000, Martin Gleadow wrote:
> loli wrote:
> >    
> >    
> > > From time to time a question about connecting lines appears at the list    
[...]
> > The upper part looks like just a line but again it is formed by two lines   
> > joined with an ellipse   
>
> That sounds like it will work, but doesn't seem a very elegant solution. 
>   In addition, when I zoomed in as close as I could then tried to 
> further minimise the ellipse Dia crashed on my repeatedly (0.94, 
> installed via apt on Ubuntu)

Can't reproduce that on 0.95-pre6 or 0.94.  Which GTK are you using?
Can you crash 0.95-pre* that way?

> I see 2 options here:
>
> 1) allow the creation of arbitrary zero size connection points which can 
> be added to the diagram for this purpose

That's somewhat of a kludge, but easy to do.

> 2) Allow the end of a line to act as a connection point.

I did an attempt of that once, and it would require some extra plumbing
and UI to allow it to be disconnected again.

-Lars