Re: Diagram tree window - patch (Was: Re: xml-i18n and a new feature)

["Andrew S . Halper" <ashalper acm org>]

Finally got around to trying this out.  It is very cool.  It's going to make
bulky ER diagrams much more manageable.  Thanks!

Andy

On 2001.10.30 17:18 Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote:
> Cyrille Chepelov <chepelov@calixo.net> writes:
> 
> > This feature sounds interesting... Please hack at will ! Unfortunately,
> > given the current apparently very limited time historic coders of dia can
> > spend on it nowadays, things are very quiet on the CVS side. I don't even
> > know whether my snapshot generator even generates correct tarballs, and if
> > not, what's broken in them :-(
> > 
> > I guess the general policy applies: show us unidiffs that rock and they get
> > in :-) 
> > 
> 
> hi, 
> 
> the attached patch (to be applied to the current CVS tree) implements
> the diagram window idea i mentioned a few days ago:
> 
> - a new menu item "View/Diagram tree" in the toolbox toggles the
>   diagram tree window.
> 
> - the window shows a tree with the currently open diagrams as its nodes.
> 
> - each node can be expanded to show the diagram's objects as an icon +
>   the object name, text or type (depending on whether the object has
>   a "name" or "text" properties).
> 
> - clicking on a diagram node brings its window to the foreground, and
>   clicking on an object's node also selects the object within the
>   diagram.
> 
> - the tree content is kept in sync as you add/remove diagrams/objects,
>   or change the "name" property (i haven't found the way to
>   automatically update the "text" when you change it, but it is
>   updated when you click on the object's node).
> 
> - a new dia preference can be set specifying whether to show the
>   diagram window at startup or not (it would be very easy to add
>   preferences to set the window's dimensions if you think it's
>   useful, probably in a new tab on the preferences dialog). 
> 
> i've not tested these new features in depth, but they seem to work
> pretty well here. any feedback will be highly appreciated!
> 
> i hope the unidiff rocks enough to get in :-)
> 
> best regards,
> 
> jao
> 
>