Re: Connection points

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon yandex ru>]

Greetings, John Bale via dia-list!

> Hello,


> As a user of both visio and dia I would like if I may, to provide some comments that may prove helpful.


> (1) The single biggest drawback of dia is the limited number of connection
> points on key shapes.

You can add as many connection points, as you feel necessary.

> The image shape is a great way to import any SVG image. But, for complex
> charts the user may need to clearly show multiple connections to a shape
> thereby avoiding ambiguity. There are only 4 such connection points on that
> tool.

To myself, imported images have too many unneeded(unwanted!) connection points.

> Creation of custom shapes works. But, I have found that text insertion
> fails after adding several connection points. Which is spooky behavior.

An example would help illustrate your problem.

> (2) A secondary issue more in the nice to have category, is the crossing of
> connection lines. This may be unavoidable and to avoid confusion a “bump” in
> the crossing point would be a nice touch. However, from a coding point of
> view this may be tricky to implement.

Yes, that was always a suggestion, but never implemented to my knowledge.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 13:56:32

Sorry for my terrible english...