Re: swapping shapes

[vwf <vwf vulkor net>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:23:52PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:07:28 +0200, vwf <vwf vulkor net> wrote:
>
> > I have a series of shapes that are identical except for the image. Now I
> > would like to be able to swap one shape for another one on the canvas.
> There might be more intelligent solutions than the one I propose: you
> could write a python script that plugs in a command that lets you swap
> the current shape for another.

I thought about this. There are two problems:

1 Python for dia documentation is sparse. 

Where do I install scripts?
How do I execute them from within Dia?
What would be a good script to start off with?

2 Would this work on Debian stable with Dia 0.97.1?

I compiled 0.97.2 from source but the confuration reported no
Python support

Configuration:
        Source code location:   .
        Compiler:               gcc

        Gnome support:                          no
        Python support:                         no
        Libart support (PNG export):            yes
        Cairo support (PNG, PDF, print):        yes
        Dia Python bindings with SWIG           no
        WMF plug-in with libEMF:                no
        html doc:                               no
        pdf and ps doc:                         no

I tried to build the Debian packages but the compilation fails at some
point and the maintainers have not replied yet (I doubt they ever will)

I installed the Ubuntu packages from the download site but there is a
naming problem with libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0, and libpython2.7 is not
available on Debian stable

As a result, I do not have Python with my Dia

Thanks