Re: Box (object) with text

["loli" <loli unsa edu ar>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:48:44 +0200, Dan Bar Dov wrote
> I'm using dia to generate block diagrams. There is one feature I
> dearly miss in dia:
>
> entering objects with text is very unfriendly.
>
> Let me explain:
> I want to create a box and put a text in it. Adding a text to the box
> is great, but now I want those two to live together, group them you
> say? sure but then I cannot edit the text anymore. Now consider I 
> want 50 boxes, I need to group, copy/paste, ungroup, change text, regroup?
>
> I tried to create a shape that's a box with text in it - couldn't
> figure out how to do that in 5 minutes (exported a diagram as shape,
> tried to "sheets and objecs" add it, dia crashes) , so I dropped the
> idea.
>
> UML class object has text in it, but it gets resized to the internal
> text size - not what I want, plus the class has some extra lines.
>
> I'm talking about what to me is the minimum basic functionality. It
> has been in visio from day 1. Maybe I'm missing something, so please,
> enlighten me, I think it is very likely I'm missing something.

Have you tried the shapes in the flowchart sheet?  They grow (resize) with 
the size of text inside them; but they admit two or three symbols withot 
growing ..

I use in my work shapes that don't resize (I 'm still planning to send them 
to Dia ...). My texts are usually very short, so I prefer all the shapes 
being of same size ....and eventually modify some sizes if needed. My shapes 
have just 2 connecting points, vertically or horizontally aligned. 
I can send you some if you want.


> Dan
>
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