Re: bounding points for boxes etc.

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:59:50PM -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On 2 Sep 2003, avp@cad.ru wrote:
> > Lars Clausen ??????????:
> >> On 2 Sep 2003, avp@cad.ru wrote:
> >>
> >>> Almost every shape in Dia has connection points that allow a user to
> >>> bound these shapes to other ones via lines, curves etc. But there's a
> >>> strict amount of such points. Is there an easy way to change this
> >>> amount?

> >> No.  We have discussed various solutions, but it's tricky.  It has to be
> >
> > What if connection points are added in user defined (and thus fixed)
> > points, and Dia calculates percentage of each connection point's
> > position and resizes sides keeping ratio taken from that percentage
> > info?
> 
> That makes sense in most cases, but sometimes the object doesn't scale in a
> linear fashion.  See for example the UML Component, the two extra block
> don't change size when the whole thing is resized.

But does it really matter? I think that so far, most objects DO scale linearly.
So when rescaling object, dia could rescale its user-defined points too.
Cases where it does not work could be solved later

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