Re: Structuring DIA sheets

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Christophe Ponsard wrote:
> 
>>There's been some discussion recently.  We're thinking of having a
>>treeview for it.
>>
> A simple and natural design !  I guess we will have to consider adding
> new tags
> to the XML sheet descriptors to have the information to build that tree.
> Eg.
> <category>network</category>
> <subcategory>cisco</subcategory>

Point. <subsubcategory>routers</subsubcategory>.  That won't be easy to
manipulate, though.  Maybe allow manipulation in the Sheets & Object dialog.

>>I'm not sure what it'd mean to associate a (subset of) a sheet to a
>>diagram, could you explain further?  Dia allows you to mix elements from
>>different diagrams.
>>
> My concern was only for the UI level. When working on diagram mixing
> many sheets
> it is cumbersome to constantly switch between them. So my idea here is
> to have another
> view in which you could open only the few sheets you are currently
> working with.

The Sheets & Objects dialog allows you to build your own sheet.  But an
interesting possibility is to automatically generate a temporary sheet that
contains just the objects in the diagram.

> Maybe this could be done using a tabbed pane: a tab with the global
> tree view
> and another one with the few working sheets (the last would not
> necessary have to
> be a treeview and would be diagram-contextual)

Maybe...

-Lars

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