Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update

[Sebastian Audet <smaudet2 gmail com>]

Jim,

I understand your concern, however my use case is specific - when you
tag a piece of text to the center of the box, it automatically stays
centered with the box already. The problem is that the box doesn't
resize e.g. if you make the text larger, and it would be nice to have
some way of doing this automatically.

I would think most users who anchor text to boxes would want something
like this to happen, even if you put a label on the top or bottom of
the box. I could see a case where you might not want to do this for
the top/bottom, and even an artistic case where you might want text
not to influence the box size even when its inside the box, and for
this reason I was already thinking there would be someway to turn this
off or on by default and on a case by case basis.

Also I would not want the box to 'shrink' to the text, although I
suppose that could be another feature. I would implement that
separately. I would only want the box to 'grow' as the text became
longer.

Is there something I'm missing that is giving you cause for concern?

Regards,
Sebastian

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> Hi Sebastian--
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> I'm not sure just what you are asking here, and I am sure not making any
> changes anywhere. I am a user only,
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> BUT--I would not want boxes to resize after editing text. (Or ever) I want
> them to be the same size always. Whether full of text or only one word.
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> Thanks,
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>    Jim Clark
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> From:   Sebastian Audet <smaudet2 gmail com>
> To:     dia-list gnome org
> Date:   08/06/2015 03:49 AM
> Subject:        Want to resize Boxes on text update
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> First of all, I really like dia, in my opinion this is the best and most
> versatile tool out there for drawing things, fast.
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> That said, there are a few rough edges.
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> Is anyone working on making the boxes resize after a text edit?
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> I'm working on a patch to get this done at the moment, but wanted to check
> to see if anyone was doing something similar, or if there is a bugtracker
> or something somewhere.
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