Re: Dia Automatic Layouting

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

Am 04.08.2008 01:08, Fred Morcos schrieb:
> Dear All,
>
> Here [1] is a screencast of the work I've been doing. 
I would love to see this but it does not work for me neither on win32 (XP) 
nor on Linux(Ubuntu 8.04). Is this just me or may the files be broken?

> I will have a
> patch ready soon (still some rough edges to be polished). Two problems
> remains though, the first is "Differentiating between normal objects
> and connectors", it only works with the "Standard - *" because I'm
> still stuck with string comparison. 
Rather than trying to explain just once more I'll try to provide a patch to 
your patch then ;-)

> The other problem is that I can't
> figure out a way for the "Undo" feature to revert "all" of the changes
> made by the algorithm in one step. 
If you have partial undo working maybe there is just an 
undo_set_transactionpoint() missing?

> We can discuss these problems in detail when I send out the patch.
Yes, show us the source ;)

> I am devoted to maintaining and developing this feature until it is perfected.
>
> I would like to deeply thank all of the people on the mailing list who
> helped me out with Dia and thus achieving my bachelor thesis.
Congratulations ;-)
        Hans

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