Re: Autolayout plug-in

["Fred Morcos" <fred morcos gmail com>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> wrote:
> At 08.10.2008 16:50, Fred Morcos wrote:
> > Sorry for the very late reply, I have been finalizing my thesis and
> > moving back to my country. I would like to restart the discussion
> > about automatic layout, gearing things towards inclusion into Dia as
> > an offered feature.
> >
> > You would prefer it as a plugin (I presume)?
>
> Yes.
> > If it is a plugin, where should the GUI code go (if any)?
>
> In the plug-in. I did the necessary changes to your code some time ago, but
> that may be lost in some email. I have now added the plug-in to bugzilla.
> See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556026

I forgot to mention that I am going to implement it in Python. That
was why I asked about GUI code. So should I use pygtk?

> > Any requirements for the GUI (following a certain HIG)?
>
> You may want to read http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/. But
> please keep in mind that Dia should rely only on GUI available with vanilla
> Gtk+ for portability easons.
> > How can I generate the API docs for plugins? --with-hardbooks didn't work.
>
> There is no dedicated plug-in API documentation. Basically you can use
> everything available from lib/* and nothing from app/*

Help > PyDia Docs is all what's there?

> > Any requirements about memory usage and processing? Or which one
> > should be prefered over the other?
> As mentioned before: I prefer a clean, easy to understand implementation
> over any optimization.
>
> Have fun,
>        Hans
>
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