Re(2): Python API

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 01.09.2010 15:52, Carlo Calderoni wrote:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2001-July/msg00054.html   here some
> info
While this information is probably still valid newer inforamtion is usually 
better, e.g.:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2009-November/msg00042.html

with:

http://dia-installer.de/howto/python_win32/ar01s04.html
http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Python
http://projects.gnome.org/dia/
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/dia/tree/samples/Self/PyDiaObjects.dia
	[ You should look really close to that diagram; the API documentation 
visible by reflection is used as comments for shown messages. ]
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/dia/tree/plug-ins/python

and e.g.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2009-November/msg00044.html

> in python console try a "dir(dia)" and so on on every method and property to
> investigate a little deeper
There are other ways as outlined above.

> you could also try this script
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/137951-dump-all-the-attributes-of-an-object/
> (put it in ~/.dia/python, import in dia python console and try
> "dumpObj(dia)" and so on. Maybe some minor editing required)
> I found it very usefull
By only reading the code this lloks very similar in appraoch (reflection) 
as one of my early PyDia scripts 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/plug-ins/python/pydiadoc.py

Used to create he initial version (and now for updating) the above 
mentioned diagram.

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