Re: Chen-ERD and Crow's Foot Diagrams?

[Daryl Manning <dwm wakatara com>]

Actually, just thinking on a fast and dirty way to handle this for Crows
Footing rather than completely reinventing the wheel with DiaCanvas.

While it isn't really "proper" support for the model and only the
diagram, I was wondering if it was possible to just add the types of
"endings" (ie. the crow's feet and such) to the start and ending line
options pulldown lists and handle it that way?

Just seemed like a fast easy way to support Crow's Feet and it is what
they happen to do in Visio anyway?

Anyone see any major obstacles to changing Dia to work that way?

ciao!
Daryl.


 

On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 04:32, Andrew S Halper wrote:
> On 2002.04.04 15:14 Daryl Manning wrote:
> > I apologize if it is a repeated request. I imagine it would be quite
> > useful as there doesn't seem to be a non-commercial tool (in linux or
> > windows even) out there that I could find that does this (if someone
> > has
> > one, I'd certainly appreciate a link). I'm currently in the process of
> > covnerting my entire life from Windows to Linux and this would
> > certainly
> > help as well as roughly a dozen people I can think of off the top of
> > my
> > head... =}
> > 
> > I am not a modelling or database expert, nor do I play one on TV... =}
> > However, I would be willing to try and undertake this if someone could
> > point me where to begin (ie. a description of what's involved etc.) in
> > terms of programming/editing. I imagine it's not so difficult as just
> > requiring a lot of slog work (ie. nothing brilliant required as the
> > E-R
> > is basically already done).
> > 
> > and er, I didn't know what DiaCanvas2 was and the DiaCanvas widget
> > link
> > on the Dia site appears not to work.
> 
> It's at:
> 
> http://diacanvas.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Andy
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