Re: Dia in our enterprise

[Steffen Macke <sdteffen yahoo com>]

Hi,

> >  - Dynamic sheets Today, to add a new shape to a sheet, we need to edit
> > by hand the sheet file. This is very powerfull: almost any shape can be
> > obtained in this way. However, a simple mecanism to save a diagram into a
> > shape and place it in a sheet from *inside* dia could be done. This is a
> > feature present in Visio. One use we had for this is when we draw network
> > packets: we cut and paste boxes with different gray backgrounds. For the
> > time being, we keep them on a 'template' diagram.
>
> Saving to a shape is there, it's now just a question of fixing the sheet.
> Takes a bit of XML parsing, but it is absolutely doable.

I've started with a sheet manager that allows to customize sheets from within 
dia.

Steffen


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