Re: problem with colours when creating shapes

[Ian Redfern <RedfernI logica com>]

I had to put

stroke-width: 0;

as well as set the stroke colour to the same as the fill colour in the
attributes of the filled shape to get rid of the line.

e.g. <svg:path d="M195.81 -1552.72l2.23 3.54l15.71 -10.09l-2.23
-3.59l-15.71 10.14z" style="fill: #ffffff; stroke-width: 0; stroke:
#ffffff"/>

As for dashes, are you using stroke-pattern:/stroke-dashlength: or
stroke-dasharray:/stroke-dashoffset:? If I remember, Dia likes
stroke-pattern rather than the SVG standard stroke-dasharray.

Ian Redfern.

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 18:22, Alan Horkan wrote:
> 
> i have been trying to creat new shapes an having some colour problems.
> I am hoping i can get some clarifcation and feedback before filing this
> bug report.  I am using Dia 0.90 on windows.
> 
> Create a polygon
> set the fill and line colour to be the same colour (execpt black)
> export to .shape
> 
> add the shape using the sheets and objects dialog*
> draw using the new shape.
> 
> You should see that there is an unwanted black outline.  It looks like two
> very thin black lines.
> 
> If you look at the XML of the .shape file you will see that Dia in effect
> specifies a shape twice.  Once for the outline and once for the filled
> shape.  (another side effect of this si that you get duplicates of all the
> connections points in the .shape file)
> 
> I tried deleting the outer outline polygon from the shape file leaving
> only the filled polygon.
> It did not work, it only resulted in the shame shape but as if i had
> specified a black outline, even though i did not.
> 
> So what i think is happening is that the outline is getting drawn anyway,
> only in the first case there is another coloured line on top of it so only
> part of it is visible in the second case the unwanted outline is clearly
> visible.
> (i would provid a screenshot, but i managed to forgot the necessary cables
> for my laptop and have spent the last 20 minutes destroying the floppy
> drive, when the damned disk window got jammed.  stress, aargh! "dont
> make me angry, you wont like me when i am angry". I'll attach a screen
> shot to a bug report later if necessary).
> 
> I need to be able to have shapes that are a filled with a single solid
> colour.  (I am drawing 3D directional map shapes).
> 
> And i cant get dashed/dottet lines to work in Dia 0.90 for windows (tried
> on two win98 machines) and i get the feeling this problem might have been
> mentioned before so i will check bugzilla.
> 
> Sincerely
> Alan Horkan
> 
> 
> * some problems with the sheets and objects dialog, which i intend to file
> bugs for.
> If you add a shape to the current sheet (and exit the sheets and objects
> dialog) it will not appear until you change sheet and change back again.
> An extra call to redraw/refresh is needed somewhere.
> 
> Also if you close the sheets and objects dialog without hitting apply you
> changes will not take effect.  Probably need to describe this better, but
> it has got me a few times and I find it confusng.
> I need take a more thorough look at the sheets and objects dialog.
> 
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