Re: feature request: horizontal/vertical lines

[Christian Ridderström <christian ridderstrom gmail com>]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:

> 2008/12/21 Christian Ridderström <christian ridderstrom gmail com>:
>
> > > Consider two boxes of the same size one below the other, with two
> > > connectors on each side, i.e., each side is divided into three equal parts
> > > by the connectors. If you want to connect the left connector on the bottom
> > > of the top box, and the right connector on the top of the bottom box,
> > > alignment is of no help. As a work around, what I do in this case is create
> > > small anchor objects that I can align vertically, and then either delete
> > > them or hide them somehow.
> >
> > I've used this approach as well, but I found it to be more work than
> > snapping to the centre. Typically I'd use a line that I try to make
> > invisible by setting it's colour to that of the foreground. I give the line
> > the appropriate nmber of anchors, duplicate the line and snap the lines to
> > the respective objects.
> >
> > PS. Is there a place to upload examples illustrating things like this?
>
> A page here might be the right way to do it:
> http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Looks good to me. There is already
        http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Examples

but in this case I was thinking of much simpler examples, so a separate 
page might be better. Unforutnately I can't come up with a good name 
for the page right now. Perhaps 'ExamplesSimple'?

/Christian

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