Re: Specialized rendering (was Re: Feature request)

[Max Wahler <max mike-melone de>]

Hi Hans,

first of all, thanks for your support!

> Not sure if I understand, but sounds like part of this could be possible
> with some recent and not so recent additions. With
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/commit/?id=3cf5a40
> it is possible to interweave meta information from the object level with
> drawing information.

Those draw methods could exactly be used to do what I'm looking for! The 
Python SVG exporter is pretty nice, I think that's a great base to start 
with.

> There also is a meta info property editor for most objects
> (unfortunately not yet for complex objects - e.g. UML-Class - which
> bring their own property editing. See:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/NEWS?id=3cf5a40#n5

Maybe I'm blind or dumb (or both), but where do I find that property 
editor? I tried to get it with UML and non-UML elements but I cannot 
find it.

> What's the element identifier? If you refer to e.g. the name property of
> the UML-Class object, than the above may work. But if you are refering
> to the id used in the diagram file, please read:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2009-December/msg00007.html

With "element identifier" I just mean a meta info that's given by the 
diagram designer to an element. It does not have to be unique. For I 
want to do, I must be able to assign identifiers to all elements.

Ok, after looking at the imgmap and SVG exporter examples, I think that 
I can implement the needed functionality myself if there's already some 
possibility to assign names (or other meta info) to elements.


Max

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