Re: Unit selection input

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Robert Young wrote:

>> From: Lars Clausen [mailto:lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu] wrote
>>
>> Here's a design choice I'd like some input on:  Should Unit 
>> selection be a
>> per-diagram option or a global option?  Any opinions for or against?
>> 
> 
> I vote for the per diagram option with a default for new diagrams. Why?
> Because the times when I want to use non metric units I don't want it
> changing the default for new diagrams and I'll only want to change the
> units on the current diagram. Please have the option for millimetres (mm)
> as I have an aversion to centimetres :-)

Further delving into properties turn up a problem:  The standard properties
code doesn't have a pointer to the diagram at all.  Either one will have to
be passed down through object_get_props_from_offsets(), or the objects will
have to hold a pointer to their diagram, or something else entirely.
Cyrille, do you have any ideas?

-Lars

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