New user with questions/suggestions

[Alan Corey <alan01346 gmail com>]

I'd rather the forum at Sourceforge was active but...

It seems to me that when you double-click on an object that can
contain text, it would be useful to have the dialog box that pops up
able to edit the text, not just have font/color/alignment stuff in it.
Sort of like the text line at the top of Excel or Libre Office Calc is
the ultimate editor for a cell.  Just put an edit box in there and
populate it with the text that's in the object, then put any changes
(set a dirty flag) back into the object when it's closed.

I have a queasy feeling about objects and text, it seems easy to add a
standalone text anywhere but not so easy to add text to an existing
object so it moves with it when dragged.  I've never used Visio but
several other drawing programs.  There was some little freeware
Windows drawing program from the 1990s I used to use which had a
semi-formal binding process.  A complex object made of several parts
could be broken into the parts for editing, or conversely you could
draw a box around the parts and bind them together, after which they'd
drag and manipulate as a single object.  "Bind" wasn't the term used,
I forget what it was, same idea.  I've also used an emf/wmf editor
that worked that way.  I probably still have copies of that stuff
around on CDs.

I'd like to use this for flowcharts which, on paper, have text inside
most or all objects, as well as Y or N labels on a decision box's
lines to later boxes.

  Alan Corey,  aka ab1jx

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