Re: changing colour of custom shapes

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 27.11.2008 16:35, waldbauernbub wrote:
> Dear Dia-Users!
>
> I am trying to create a dia-sheet with symbols used in power-engineering 
> (power station, cooling and heating cycles) which I intend to make 
> available to other users once it's finished.
>
> I am experiencing problems with the shapes which I created myself:
> Exporting the shapes, importing into a sheet and using in a dia file 
> works well.
> But when I try to change the colour of the inserted object not all lines 
> change their colour.
> I noticed the following behaviour:
> Straight lines do not change the colour, but the colour beziergons and 
> ellipses is changed to the desired one.
Looks like pure coincidence though I currently can not find the reason in 
the souce code.

> I did a lot of research to find an answer to this question. I would 
> appreciate your help.
I think this is (kind of) answered in the custom-shapes document. You need 
to use the symbolic names to get color editing capabilities:

  stroke       - The stroke colour.  You can use one of the symbolic
                 names foreground, fg, default, background, bg inverse,
                 text or none, or use a hex colour value of the form
                 #rrggbb.

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