Re: Line pointed to center of circle

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 22.09.2011 15:30, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Hans Breuer!
[...]
> > Not quite. "Assorted - Perfect Circle" is a custom shape and it still has
> > the autogap feature. This is due to the main point.
> > But not marking one of the connection points with main="yes" should indeed
> > disable the autogap.
>
> Could you please explain?
Autogap has two prerequisites:
 1) a connection to the "whole object" connection point,
aka "main point", usually center connection point.
 2) an autogap-aware connection, e.g. "Standard - Line"
See connpoint_is_autogap() and calculate_object_edge()

> I haven't noticed anything like that in the documentation, neither I was able
> to find the source for the "Perfect Circle" shape.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/shapes/Assorted/circle.shape

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