Re: How to place extra connection points

[Marchand <ricoh51 free fr>]

Hi Xavier,

Le mercredi 14 mars 2012 Ã 12:27 +0100, Xavier Marchador a Ãcrit :
> 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.

Since the coordinates are not very friendly, i would suggest to create
manually a new shape.

> 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.

why not open your shape within dia? :)

When i create a new shape, i alternatively :
* write the shape in an text editor
* close and reopen dia to visualize the shape

good luck

Ãric