Re: How to contribute

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 30 Aug 2003, Peter Poulsen wrote:
> Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> writes:
>
> Sounds like a good idea.
>
> Ok, here it is. Should be applied by standing in the cvs co dir, and
> typing pathc -p1 < <path>/hex.patch.

One important thing:  Do not include translation-related things in code
patches.  It makes the patch unnecessarily long, and I don't want to mix up
the two parts.

> I know it may sound like a weird thing to make hex-grid, but I'm working
> on making a sheet (or whatever it's called), inteded for creating maps
> which works a lot better with hex-grids.

I've had the thought before.  Both games and chemists have some interest in
this. 

> This is the first time I have coded for Dia or with Gtk, so I'm open to
> criticism.

It seems to work ok.  However, as a property of the diagram, it should be
saved with the diagram and settable for each diagram in the diagram
properties dialog, just like dynamic grid.  That takes a bit of GTK
hacking, especially take care to have sensitivity set right.

-Lars

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