Re: Autolayout plug-in

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 12.10.2008 19:07, Fred Morcos wrote:
> 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. 
Why would you want to do this? As mentioned before it definitely is no 
requirement to get your code to be included with Dia.

> That was why I asked about GUI code. So should I use pygtk?
If you would go with Python, yes.

> > > 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?
Almost, but see also: http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/python.html

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