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Re: moving lines with shapes



On 22 May 2001, Lars Clausen wrote:

> > This relatively simple feature (to the opuitsider looking in at
> > least) would make a huge difference to visio usability. I'd be happy to
> > code it if somebody gave me some big pointers on where and how to start
> > and what to look out for. Dia is a bit big for me to master most of its
> > code in order to just fix line behaviour, and I'm hoping that my current
> > extra freetime (did I mention I was looking for work) will be somewhat
> > less in the near future.
> 
> The first thing to do (IMO) is to be able to ask an object for the
> orthogonal angle at a connectionpoint.  That would take adding a function
> in lib/object.h and add support in objects/*/*.c (for objects with
> connectionpoints).
> 
> I have in fact several functions I wish to add, including a standard
> function for importers to create shapes with.

I've downloaded 0.88.1 and I have started reading through the source.

So far I have looked at connection.h and connection.c as instructed in the
readme - anything else that would be helpful before I start hacking at
bits of it?

A.





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