RE: Wrapping Text in Object

["Kerry, Richard" <richard kerry siemens com>]

Surely you want to it to be configurable.
For some documents you want the text to wrap so the object keeps its size.
For others you could just let the object grow.

Just looked at Visio.
Keep typing, the object maintains its width, auto-wrapping on spaces.
If a word is too long to fit the width, it just gets wrapped.
The object gets taller if you keep adding text to it.

Ie they give priority to the width of the object but allow its height to increase.

That's for a rectangle.
Diamonds (decisions) just keep their size constant.  The text behaves like for a rectangle, ie its width is 
constant but it'll spread above and below the diamond.

Helpfully,
Maybe,
Richard.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dia-list-bounces gnome org 
> [mailto:dia-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Steffen Macke
> Sent: 21 July 2010 17:22
> To: discussions about usage and development of dia
> Subject: Re: Wrapping Text in Object
>
> Hi Dysier,
>
> your point is valid. Automatic text wrapping would be nice 
> but it would 
> cause problems for those that
> prefer to place their linebreaks themselves. If you're 
> worried about a 
> fixed width, you may also be
> worried about a fixed height and automatic text wrap would 
> cause height 
> change problems. Unless
> you start scaling the text at the same time. But this will result in 
> strange looking diagrams (random
> text size).
>
> Have you thought about setting (reducing) the default text 
> size for the 
> object you're using to a value
> that would allow you to stay well within the desired size of 
> your objects?
> If you have a fixed width in mind, why don't you start with resizing 
> your objects to that size and wrap your texts accordingly during text 
> entry? I would expect much more sensible results than any
> automatic text wrapping could produce.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steffen
> > Am I missing something?  If I place down an object and then begin 
> > filling this object with text, the object grows in width.  Clearly 
> > this would only jack everything up when building a flow chart.  It 
> > would be nice if I could set the width of the object (which 
> by default 
> > would be the last dimension that I set), and have the text 
> wrap around 
> > automatically changing the height instead.  Any suggestions?  Thanks
>
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