Re: Text anchoring points

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

You can group as many things as you like which locks them together.  Lines will snap to the components in a group that they snap to when ungrouped.  You can put really small or background colored connectors points from the electric menu and snap to that as you like with what ever you like.

Not a programmer of Dia, just offering current functions that workaround for you.

Mike

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Dilan Amarasinghe <sobasri gmail com> wrote:

I think David has a valid point, if other elements just get attached
to line anchoring points when they are moved around.  To my experience
only text items or end of line-type items do anchor when they are
dragged by their end points or anchoring points over the  anchoring
points of the other items in flowchart, but not the other way around.

They idea behind my suggestion is that we often move things around to
edit flowcharts. So when items are properly anchored no matter how
they are moved around the diagram will keep its structure intact,
barring any editorial changes to make things pretty.

Hope this makes sense and I would welcome your comments.  I tested
this on Dia 0.97.1 on a OSX 10.6.6.

Dilan

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