Re: Diagram Linking

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 15.06.2011 19:55, Vikram Subramanian wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think that is really a cool feature. In fact that will improve the
> presentation features of dia.
What is the "presentation feature" of Dia ...
> Ideally, we have to insert jpegs, pngs (both are lossy)
[ No PNG are _not_ lossy. That's the reason it is choosen to save the 
inline data. See: http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/lib/prop_pixbuf.c#n157 ]
> into presentations and use ppt or equivalent.
... and where is the connection to Microsoft's proprietary Powerpoint 
format (ppt) ?
> With this feature in order to drill down into a component, you actually
> literally drill into (double click) the boxes (aka components, etc.)
This is not how it is implemented. You will have to use the context menu 
item "Follow link".

> Talking about this, I can think of two clear reqs
>
> 1. Forward and Backward diagram traversal (drill down and drill up)
> 1. Drill-down on a particular component
> 2. Drill-down on a portion of the diagram
> 3. Drill-down on the diagram as such - say from High Level
> Design to Detailed Level Design diagrams
> * /Essentially, the user should be able to designate a child
> diagram to the component(s) he like/.
> 2. Some kind of GUI tree - showing the traversal from one component
> to the other.
>
> Really valuable requirement.
None of the above is implemented and at least I do not plan to implement 
full blown inter diagram naviagtaion. But of course you could implment it 
yourself - the power of open source ;-)

> Good work Hans!
>
> @Jorge Camacho : I don't see the above requirement in the link you have
> provided. It does talk about Diagram Tree, but doesn't seem to talk
> about traversal.
Now I'm completely confused:
 - could not find a link provided by Jorge
 - the link I gave talks about meta info and diagram tree, but both these
   features are completely unrelated

Regards,
        Hans
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