Re: UrShape coding update

[Cyrille Chepelov <chepelov calixo net>]

Le jeu, jui 26, 2001, à 11:35:59 -0400, John Palmieri a écrit:

> odd reason the UrShapes sheet is showing up twice.  I don't really like how it
> attaches to the plugin.  I think UUID's should be used instead of names to
> identify resources but I guess that is something to put on the list for the
> future.

UUID's don't buy you much, except the loss of human(developer)-manipulable
quantities (oh, yeah, fixed format). In certain problem spaces, they do a
lot of sense, in this problem space, well, you have a variable-length string
of identifier data, which you happen to be able to humanly parse (as a
bonus).

> Well I have it loading and crashing for now.  Hehe, seems like I have to add an
> init_default_values method somewhere.  I'm glad I went through all that trouble
> getting things to work. I now have a good idea of the structure of Dia.  I have to
> say that it is very well organized.  Since I can separate UrShape from the main
> program there is no need for diffs except for in the Makefile.am's if the core
> team feels that they want it as part of the main distro.  I'll have to write a doc

diff -urN against the whole tree is still easier to apply, even if only one or
two files are actually modified.

> on how to create Dia plugins at some point.  After I am done with the basic setup

that'd be definitely welcome.

> stuff and have some working code I will separate it from the main sources and
> place it in CVS along with a tarball posted to this list.

	-- Cyrille

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