Re: Adding comments to an object

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

Greetings, Ken Springer!

> > > > I want to make a chart of historical information, and would like to
> > > > > annotate the chart entry with additional information.
> > > I doubt you want to supply Dia along with your chart...
> > > Either you picked a wrong tool for the job, or you should rethink your
> > > expectations and adapt to the desired result with the tool on hand in mind.
> > I agree with Andrey, you are probably using the wrong tool for the job:
> > I suppose what you need is Inkscape, a vector graphics program: you can
> > slice the svg and make a web page out of it, or animate the SVG directly
> > (Inkscape doesn't support that directly). A bit of Javascript would do
> > what you need.
> > Also, consider Synfig as a tool for animations.
> >
> > Dima.

> I do not know why, but I never received Andrey's reply.  If there's more 
> to the response, I do not have it.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2014-April/msg00010.html

> Replying to Dima's message in reverse order, Synfig is definitely not 
> the tool I need.  That is not the type of "animation" I'm looking for.

You're contradicting to yourself.

> I'm creating an organizational chart structure of information.  If I 
> choose to, I want to be able to click on an object, in this case a 
> rectangle, and have another box, or window, open somewhere that gives me 
> additional information about the data in the rectangle.

This is precisely what is called "animation", or "automation", if you wish.

> The information the box/window will be the same type of information you
> would get from a footnote, endnote, or bibliography.
> It will simply tell me where I got the information from.

Yet again, you expect much from a generic tool.
You can probably do what you want with a bit of Python scripting, but there's
no readily available tools in Dia to do this, that I'm aware of.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 21.04.2014, <22:22>

Sorry for my terrible english...