Several questions

[Elie Roux <elie roux enst-bretagne fr>]

Hello,

In my free time I sometimes design stage lighting schemes (sorry, this
may not be the good translation, but I really couldn't fint it), and I
would like to do it with Dia, so I'm trying to build the appropriate
shapes. Sadly it does not seem to be as easy as I thought.

First I'd like to draw new shapes and submit it to you for integration
in future releases. But if I draw a new shape, how do I integrate it in
the GUI ? I made a directory shapes/Lights, with test.shape and test.png
inside, and the good Makefile.am (I also changed shapes/Makefile.am to
integrate the Lights subdir). It seems to work properly. I also wrote
Lights.sheet.in. I have Lights in my menu, but it is empty... How can I
fill it with my test.shape ?

Second, How do I build complex shapes ? I'd like for example to draw
something that looks like the and.shape in Logic, but I don't know how
to do it : I can't with dia, because if I draw it with different lines,
I'm not able to fill the inside with white, and when I open a svg with
dia, I can't tell him to hide the white inside or not, and I can do that
with built-in shapes, so there are certainly differences. Do I have to
learn the shape language, or is there a miraculous trick I didn't find ?

There is a problem in the svn version, autoreconf does not work properly
due to an error in the declaration of ALL_LINGUAS line 256 of
configure.in. To fix it you just have to ad " \" at the end of line 256
and 257.

Thank you in advance for you aswers,
-- 
Elie