Re: My two cents about DIA

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon yandex ru>]

Greetings, Philip Troy!

> I have run into issues with dia in the past where the resulting diagrams
> look "funny" because I cannot make connections between objects where I want
> the connections to be.

If these were procedurally generated objects, I can understand it.
For static shapes, you can always clone interesting shapes and add or move
connection points as you wish.

> If I remember correctly, dia tends to increase the size of objects when it
> needs to to fit text.  It would be helpful just to be able to set the size
> of the object and to turn off auto-resizing.

Yes, that's one of the issues with current Dia. But also this is an issue with
people trying to write essay inside an action UML block.

> I tried creating multi-page objects like those in the uml page and was not
> able to.  I believe that these were hard coded.  It would be very helpful to
> be able to build one's own custom shapes that are sophisticated.

These are procedurally generated. Not currently possible by the end user.
Sadly.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, December 8, 2018 0:14:09

Sorry for my terrible english...