Re: Patch to custom object: object-specific properties(preliminary)

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 26 Nov 2003, W. Borgert wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:59:32AM -0600, Lars Clausen wrote:
>> I'm still wondering why you don't put these together with the normal
>> attributes.  Since they're statically defined on the shapes, there's
>> nothing to distinguish them from the other attributes anyway, so you
>> could save some work & complexity by using the regular attributes
>> mechanism.
>
> Is there an example how to use regular attributes in shapes?
> Until now I used them only in C and I would like to add
> attributes to e.g. the network/basestation.shape I added a
> few days back.  TIA!

Marco Contenti is working on exactly that, which is what this thread is
about.  It'll take some work still, though -- his patch doesn't seem to
save the attributes yet.

-Lars

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