How to place extra connection points

[Xavier Marchador <xmarchador cesca cat>]

Hi all,

I've been reading many posts about how to add extra connection points to
an object.

As far as I've been able to understand, since there's no way to add it
directly from Dia the best way to do it is editing the xml of the .shape
object and add it here.

I've done it and I've managed to add some extra connection points by
creating a new sheet, copying one existing object and modifying its xml.
However, I can't see how to know where the connection point will be
placed. How do you know where to set the coords of the new point? Is
there any visual utility that could help me with that? eg.

<connections>
<point x="600" y="100"/>
<point x="700" y="200"/>
<point x="800" y="300"/>



I've tried to open the .shape file with Inkscape but it doesn't
recognize the file format.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Best regards,

-- Xavier



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