Re: Connecting text with a line

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

It is complicated, but it has the advantage of being completely flexible.

You can also make the point so small as to be invisible, which is a little simpler than playing with the background and z depth.  If you get the habit of using the shortcut keys Dia becomes pretty efficient even for things like this.  ctrl-G and shft-ctrl-G are a great combo to learn.

Also, it is the only way you can do what you want.  Outside of creating your own special shape.  This workaround is simpler than that.

M

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Julian Hagenauer <hagenauer uni-heidelberg de> wrote:

Hi,
thank you.
Your approach seems a bit overcomplicated. Using a connection point and
making its color the same as the one of the background is not that much
different from using a box and setting its bordercolor accordingly.
In LibreOffice-draw you can connect lines directly with text without
any tricks. However, draw comes with its own problems and defiencies.
I want to stick with dia, and i think i must live with this
backgroundcolor-trick.

Thank you,
Julian

Am Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:13:48 -0400
schrieb Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>:

> Hi, You will like this.
>
> Get the Electric palette and bring out a "Connection point".  Place it
> where you want relative to the text.  Drag a box over them both and
> hit ctrl-G (for group).  You can connect the line to the connection
> point.  You can copy and paste the group to reproduce it and you can
> ungroup (ctrl-shift-G), move the point, group to relocate the point
> at will.  You can hide the point my making it the color of the
> background and move it behind the text (ctrl-shift-B). You can double
> click the ungrouped text and turn on or off the background and change
> its color.  You can group a box or other primitive function with the
> text as you desire.  The bezier region can be made in to any shape.
>
> That should jump start you.
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Julian Hagenauer <
> hagenauer uni-heidelberg de> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > i want to draw a tree.
> > The nodes should be text, and lines should connect the nodes.
> > With dia it seems not possible to connect text with lines.
> > So, the only way arround it seems to be using simple boxes with
> > text. However, boxes have borders that i do not want.
> > Setting the linewidth of the border to 0 does not
> > keep dia from drawing the borders (a bug?)
> >
> > Can you give me some advice, how i can link just text-labels with
> > lines?
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> > Julian
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