Re: Does everyone make large objects, or is it just how I am using Dia?

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

Greetings, dunn!

> I actually didn't have any files or shapes to share because I was about
> to create some, but if I have other questions, can we add an attachment 
> on the mailing list messages?

Yes.

> I've actually been working on figuring out why the shapes are coded the
> way they are.

Quite easy - to be scalable.

> I copied some into my local shapes folder and couldn't figure out why my
> changes would not show up.

Because they weren't listed in any sheet. Or because your shapes have
duplicate names. Or both.

> It took a lot of tweaking thinking it was not having extents on the svg
> part, whether line thickness were not being accepted because in some shapes
> they're stated with reals, other integers, and some not at all.

In reality (pun intended), the shape measuring units are relative to the shape
itself, and bear [almost] no significance for resulting diagram.

> It turns out there was something to do with the prefix on the name of the shapes.

There's no such thing as prefix.

> I still couldn't state definitely what I had wrong.
> It will take some more testing to figure out how the sheet file finds the
> shapes (since I noticed this when I got a 'Duplicate Object" error after a
> couple of hours of confusion :-!).  (My file was still showing me the one I had
> copied even though I had created a new sheet and renamed the shape. Sheesh!)

https://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/plain/doc/custom-shapes

> I haven't really used Dia before trying to customize it though, and it
> wasn't until I had made my first shape that I learned everything is 
> brought in at the same size anyway.  (It would be nice to learn we can 
> change this with Python on insertion or something!)

Yes.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 26.07.2014, <06:49>

Sorry for my terrible english...