gmane.comp.gnome.apps.dia

shapes with text

John Bollenbacher — 2012-05-25T15:22:28

Are there any known issues with creating shapes which contain text?  I have had 
success creating shapes with just a box or a box plus a .jpeg, however a box 
containing text shows up as an invisible shape (though the icon looks as 
expected).  Here is the shape that appears blank:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns" 
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <name>bidbox - whitetext</name>
  <icon>whitetext.png</icon>
  <connections>
    <point x="11.2" y="12.95"/>
    <point x="31.7" y="27.65"/>
    <point x="11.2" y="27.65"/>
    <point x="11.2" y="20.3"/>
    <point x="31.7" y="12.95"/>
    <point x="31.7" y="20.3"/>
    <point x="21.45" y="27.65"/>
    <point x="21.45" y="12.95"/>
  </connections>
  <aspectratio type="fixed"/>
  <svg:svg>
    <svg:rect style="fill: #ffffff" x="11.2" y="12.95" width="20.5" 
height="14.7"/>

DIA UML seems to targeting at C++, rather than Java.

JIA Pei — 2012-05-25T01:52:13

Hi, all:

1) Just start using DIA. It seems DIA only targets at C++, rather than Java.
On the one hand, in the DIA UML, there is no type "interface" for Java.
On the other hand, as for the tool dia2code, it's supposed to be able to
produce Java code.
My question: without a model of "interface" in DIA, how is dia2code able to
produce a Java interface?

2) Is there any possibility that DIA take "interface" into its
consideration?
Or, is there a substitute way for DIA to deal with the concept "interface"?


Cheers
Pei

creating and populating sheets

John Bollenbacher — 2012-05-18T16:02:18

I understand how to create new shapes and how to move shapes between existing 
sheets.  However, I can't see how to create a new sheet or place a new shape 
into an existing sheet.  Can anyone help?

Fw: Dia for programming

2012-05-12T00:24:56

< at >kp

If I understand you correctly, a possible (alternative) solution may be to use ext-attributes to store the code.

http://dia-installer.de/doc/en/custom-shapes-chapter.html#N41016

Caveat: not sure whether "programatically access" includes Python scripting.

An additional benefit would be that you can double-click on the object to edit the code.
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Subject: Re: Dia for programming

At 09.05.2012 09:36, k p wrote:
I dont quite get the model you have in mind, but it is certainly possible 
to do diagram to source code transformations with PyDia. See for example:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/plug-ins/python/codegen.py

Like in a text editor? And you want to overlay the source code with the
diagram?

A Dia Python plug-in can listen on object creation and removal. But it can

Fw: Custom Shape is not honored

2012-05-12T00:11:11

Thanks Hans.

I discovered that after I sent the mail :-)
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At 10.05.2012 19:58, James R wrote:
I guess you are expecting the size of the rectangle alone to be
like the the default size? If so you should not select resize="yes"
for the textbox, which adjust the shape size with the textbox included.
Using resize="no" should do the trick.

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Custom Shape is not honored

James R — 2012-05-10T17:58:16

I have two custom shapes with a rectangle with a textbox.
In the 1st shape, the textbox is sized to match the svg:rect.
In the 2ns shape, the textbox is below the svg:rec.

The 1st shape renders correctly by default - 3x1.
The 2nd shape does not - it renders 3x2.5.

I've tried various combinations default-width, default-height, viewbox,
changing the dimensions, etc.
All without success.

Any help would be appreciated.
go2null

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<shape xmlns="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-shape-ns" xmlns:svg="
http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <name>Rectangle - Text Inside</name>
  <icon>go2null_Rectangle_TextInside.png</icon>

  <aspectratio type="free"/>
  <default-width>3cm</default-width>
  <default-height>1cm</default-height>

  <svg:svg width="3cm" height="1cm" viewBox="0 0 3 1">
    <svg:rect style="fill:#cccccc; stroke:foreground; stroke-width:.1"
x="0" y="0" width="30" height="10"/>
  </svg:svg>
  <textbox x1="0" y1="0" x2="30" y2="10" align="center" resize="yes"/>

  <connections>
    <point x="

Updated Dia Development VM based on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Steffen Macke — 2012-05-06T17:52:42

Hi,

an updated Dia Development VM is available from

http://dia-installer.de/developer/index.html

The VM now uses Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and the VMWare Workstation 
8 format. It also comes with autodia and dia2code installed. The 
download size is approx. 46% smaller than the previous version (only 1.5 
GB).

This new version also has Python support enabled.

Regards,

Steffen

UML Code Generator for PHP

Steven Garcia — 2012-05-06T05:02:59

Greetings and salutations,

I've extended the PyDia Code Generator from UML Diagrams to write
Object Oriented PHP source code. Please, see the attached patch to
codegen.py to this EMail. The patch was generated from a git clone of the
Dia project: 'git diff > codegen-php.patch'. The patch may be applied from
the root Dia project folder: 'patch -p1 < codegen-php.patch'. I'd be happy
if you accept this contribution and add this as a feature to Dia. Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Steven Garcia

Dia in swedish

Kalle — 2012-05-04T21:43:42

How come Dia isn't available in Swedish?

Linking to external documents in Dia or other alternatives...

Jason Brower — 2012-05-01T00:42:40

Is there a way to take any object and give it a link to some external 
document?
I am a software architect that uses Dia on a daily basis.  I create 
many  diagrams to show siteflow, sourceflow, and model diagrams just to 
name a few.
The problem I have it when I start detailing the diagram in a document.  
Currently I use Abiword and I talk about, for example, the siteflow 
objects one by one detailing their information.  Though this works on 
the first run, I have a hard time keeping track of changes I have made 
to the documents to make sure I cover the changes I have made in the 
diagram.
I see two fixes for this, but this is left for discussion in the list if 
you have more.
* Create a way to put more information in a general format to the 
diagram objects and give me a way to export it to a document, like abiword.
* Build a way to link to a particular document from the Dia Object to 
another file so that I can visit it and instantly see the document 
information.

I personally like the first one as it

Dia to SQL conversion

Slavko — 2012-04-30T19:53:19

Hi,

i want to start with SQLite3 database modeling by dia. I am not UML, SQL
nor SQLite expert.

I found nice article for this
(http://left.subtree.org/2007/12/05/database-design-with-dia/), which
points me to Parse-Dia-SQL at CPAN and then i found that it has a official
debian's package and install it. After this i download sources of the
Parse-Dia-SQL, to get the dia examles and learn how things are working.

I was success to create SQL from my simple attempts, simple tables,
custom types (typemaps), default values, etc. But i am not
able find way to create FOREIGN KEY constraint for my relations. My
expectation is, that this will be created from UML associations (which i
take from rt53783.dia example.

I am not able to find other documentations or examples for this.

Please, are the FOREIGN KEY (and others) constraints supported? Only
PRIMARY KEY constrain works for me. And if yes, then can someone point me
to some docs, howtos, examples, or provide help to me?

thanks and regards

Request to link to your website

Kerr, Janel — 2012-04-29T16:32:43

Hello,

My name is Janel Kerr and I am an instructor in Engineering and Technology Education at the University of Idaho. I am also a contracted author with the International Technology and Engineering Educator's Association national curriculum, Engineering by Design. I would like to request permission to link to the following website in the curriculum guide for the course Technological Systems, 3rd Edition:

http://live.gnome.org/Dia

I would like to recommend your software as part of the internet resources section of this curriculum guide.

 

Thank you for your time.

Janel

Janel M. Kerr

MEd, MEd, Ed S P-T Ed
Instructor, Engineering and Technology Education
University of Idaho
College of Education - Curriculum and Instruction
Industrial Technology Education Building, Room 18C

Phone: 208-885-6685

 
  
Janel M. Kerr
MEd, MEd, Ed S P-T Ed
Instructor, Engineering and Technology Education
University of Idaho
College of Education - Curriculum and Instruction
Industrial Technology Education Building, Room 18C

DIA Dimensioning

Bruce & Jean Siess — 2012-04-26T17:19:25

Is it possible to change the DIA program to use fractional or decimal dimensioning?

new subscriber, not sure how to post my query to your list

Leon — 2012-04-24T22:38:30

Hi

Have just subscribed to your Dia-mail list, but am having trouble finding
ou thow to post a help request on Dial mailing list.

Grateful if you can insert the following post for me, or advise.  Thanks

"Have not designed a db since days of Access2, so very rusty. Am now
considering using 'Base' in LO/HSQLDBv2.  Am a newbie to both UML, Dia, and
Base/HSQL!   I remember with Access, I created my tables, and THEN created
an ERD diagram automatically from the design.    I guess logically the ERD
should come first, and the table creation and links flow from that.  So as
OOo/LO dont appear to be able to Create a ERD, and I saw a reference in OOo
documentation recommending Dia, have been trying to use it.    I
successfully used Dia .972 to draw all the Classes I need, but am a bit
unsure HOW to create the correct links.

1)  My Access generated ERD's had only 1 type of link: lines between table
ID's with arrow symbol at FK end, no symbol at PK end.  As I rcall, the
textbooks of the day used the same symbol - of

Reg: problem is opening the tool

E T H I E S — 2012-04-24T04:08:58

hi sir,

I am ethies.

I am using windows 7 OS with all essential softwares but need to have Dia
software for editind diagram. I successfully installed the tool and
executed the tool.
All the process did fine, at last when i marked the 'Run now' checkbox and
clicked Submit button. It does not opened the tool.

I tried to install 3 time but all the times i could not able to open the
tool.

Kindly help me to resolve this issue.


Ethies

[PATCH] Database shapes and start arrow

Jim Ursetto — 2012-04-23T05:10:20

Hi,
I noticed the database shapes set can change the end arrow type on references but
not the start arrow.  I was just curious if this was omitted for a reason.

I thought it might be useful, so I implemented start arrows at:

https://raw.github.com/gist/2468876/5046e5d3ef4174379eab24e836749504ccdef294/dia-0.97.2-dbarrow.patch

It is against HEAD but applies fine to 0.97.2.

There seems to be no downside except old files will print some warnings until you re-save: 

1) loading old file into new dia: will warn to stderr that start_arrow is
    missing for all references, and default correctly to no start arrow
2) loading new file into old dia: will ignore the start arrows

Jim

how to print one page

Dapo Ladimeji — 2012-04-19T17:44:50

Hi
Just started DIA. Whenever I print to pdf I get 15 pages! How can I reduce
to 1 please.
thanks
Napata

Import FDOT Symbols

Mark Kalivoda — 2012-04-16T20:46:14

Hello,

I've been working with dia for the last year and love it.  However, I can't
figure out how to import new symbols.  I will be working with FDOT symbols
(attached) a lot within the coming months, and it would be great if I could
use dia to diagram them.

Any suggestions on how to import, and use, these symbols?  Thanks for your
help.

mark

 

Mark Kalivoda

Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences

Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering

University of Florida

Printing -exporting problems, missing features?

Webmaster — 2012-04-16T18:47:29

Hello,

I am a new user of DIA please do help.
I downloaded it to create buildings floor planes / electrical and 
plumbing schematics, and garden lay out.

This program would be a dream come true for most designs. have problems 
I can't find solution for.
In Other sheets No building objects menu yet - doors, windows etc - 
trying to do garden layout with flow chart boxes.
Can not find "Merge layers", "Rotate" the finished diagram (here you 
need the Merge layers so all objects will be rotated).
(Need this to input text into narrow vertical boxes)
To "Re-size"  / scale the project diagram for printing on one letter 
page instead or 30 (example)
Print dialog to display how many pages it actually will take before 
printing and print preview?

Major problem - Exporting in other formats is not working -it does 
create the file with the extension (example.png).
I would like to Export the finished project to my Ark Soft PhotoStudio 5 
for further editing (which supports PNG) but the DIA Export just does 
not create

Exporting / printing problem - features not found? - Help?

Tony Hnilica — 2012-04-16T19:01:37

Hello,

I am a new user of DIA, please do help.
I downloaded it to create buildings floor planes / electrical and 
plumbing schematics, and garden lay out.

This program would be a dream come true for most designs. I like it, but 
have problems I can't find solution for.
In Other sheets No building objects menu yet - doors, windows etc so 
creating building plans no go.
Now I am trying to do garden layout so I can print it out with what is 
planted and where - boxes on boxes on boxes with Flow chart boxes.

Can not find "Merge layers", "Rotate" the finished diagram (here you 
need the Merge layers so all objects will be rotated).
(Need this to input text into narrow vertical boxes)
To "Re-size"  / scale the finished project diagram for printing on one 
letter page (%)
Print dialog to display how many pages it actually will take before 
printing and print preview?
Just need more standard printing options in the print box.

Major problem - Exporting in other formats is not working - The only 
exportable format

Look and feel

Boshielo, Andries — 2012-04-16T12:22:54

Hi there,
I'm running Dia on Linux ubuntu but my window looks different from the screenshots on the web i.e
[X]

when running my application it opens the Diagram Editor window separately from the diagram1.dia. Hope I'm making sense. I would like them to be on the same screen as above.
Please advise.

Regards,
Andy Boshielo

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