Re: Question on adding shapes

[Steffen Macke <dia diagramr biz>]

Hi Martin,

if it's ok for you to publish your shapes (ideally under the terms of 
the GPL), I could add them
to the dia-additional-shapes package, fix the sheet for you and you 
could install
them using diashapes. If this like a good idea to you, please enter a 
"Dia bug" into Bugzilla
and attach your files there:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi

Note that you can choose your *.shape file from a different place, the 
Sheet and Objects Dialog will copy it to the right place for you.

Does your Sheet show at all in Dia? (You'll have to restart Dia) If not, 
the location of your sheet file is wrong.
If the sheet shows up, but empty, either the shapes are placed in the 
wrong directory or the names in sheets/shapes do not match.

Regards,

Steffen

On 10.09.2012 10:47, Martin Wunderlich wrote:
> I have recently discovered Dia as a tool to create recipe diagrams as per the design by Sascha Wahlbrink ( 
> www.saschawahlbrink.de/index.php/ein_kochbuch.html )
> In order to make the creation of these recipes easier, I wanted to create a number of custom shapes and add 
> them to a new Dia sheet. I have been able to create a shape and export it. I have also created a new sheet. 
> However, I am stuck now in trying to add the shape to the sheet so that it shows up in the object selector. 
> There seem to be two problems:
> - I am not able to add the shape using the built-in dialog, because the .dia directory is hidden on the Mac 
> and is not showing up in the selection dialog.
> - Adding the shape manually by editing the sheet XML doesn't seem to work, because there is not pointer to 
> the shape file ( I have posted my sheet XML below).
>
>
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