Re: Custom shape problem

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

Hear, hear.  Lots of bad juju with custom shapes.  No documentation on
do's and don't's.  No spec of proper form.  No tutorial.  You must try
to infer from other shape files, but little joy arises.  I, like you,
got errors not referring to anything that sounded like shapes.

I  started taking an interest in this, but I am to ignorant to make
any headway.  I know that to figure it out one must get an
undestanding of svg  (just google on that to find the specs).  I am
hoping someone a better prepared than I starts documenting custom
shapes creation.  It is a main reason to want Dia instead of Visio
(aside from the usual aversions to M$).

All this doom and gloom aside, it is quite possible to make a shape
with Dia and convert it  into a shape and get it to appear in the
menus.  And If you live with the shapes already provided, Dia is
peachy.

The trouble comes when you try and get the shape file to look clean. 
As in no extra connection points (where do they all come from?), how
to create locate and control a text box.  How to get the shape into a
diagram with a predicatable size.  And so on.

Sorry to only commiserate, and to not offer help.

Mike


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:22:14 -0000, Victor Kirk <Victor Kirk serco com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Dia 0.94 on Windows 2000, I used the installer
> from dia-installer.sourceforge.net
> 
> I seem to be having problems creating some custom
> shapes.  I've created a couple of shapes and a sheet,
> but when I try dropping one of the new shapes I get
> a windows error dialog and Dia crashes.  The error
> looks due to an invalid pointer, i.e. an attempt to
> write to a very low memory address.
> 
> I don't know anything about windows debugging but the
> error seems to come from a method called get_paper_tmargin
> in libdia.
> 
> I've tried copying an existing shape and adding it to
> the sheet (changing it's name) and I get the same error
> when I try to add that.
> 
> Am I missing something, should I be doing something else
> beside creating a sheet, the shapes and icon images?
> Otherwise if anyone could be kind enough to check this
> with their installation I can email the files.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vic
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