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Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update



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    1. Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update (Sebastian Audet)
    2. Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update (Michael Ross)


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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 17:00:38 -0400
From: Sebastian Audet <smaudet2 gmail com>
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Subject: Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update
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Jim,

I understand your concern, however my use case is specific - when you
tag a piece of text to the center of the box, it automatically stays
centered with the box already. The problem is that the box doesn't
resize e.g. if you make the text larger, and it would be nice to have
some way of doing this automatically.

I would think most users who anchor text to boxes would want something
like this to happen, even if you put a label on the top or bottom of
the box. I could see a case where you might not want to do this for
the top/bottom, and even an artistic case where you might want text
not to influence the box size even when its inside the box, and for
this reason I was already thinking there would be someway to turn this
off or on by default and on a case by case basis.

Also I would not want the box to 'shrink' to the text, although I
suppose that could be another feature. I would implement that
separately. I would only want the box to 'grow' as the text became
longer.

Is there something I'm missing that is giving you cause for concern?

Regards,
Sebastian

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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 07:33:48 -0500
From: "Jim Clark" <jclark00 us ibm com>
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Hi Sebastian--

I'm not sure just what you are asking here, and I am sure not making any
changes anywhere. I am a user only,

BUT--I would not want boxes to resize after editing text. (Or ever) I want
them to be the same size always. Whether full of text or only one word.

Thanks,



    Jim Clark








From:   Sebastian Audet <smaudet2 gmail com>
To:     dia-list gnome org
Date:   08/06/2015 03:49 AM
Subject:        Want to resize Boxes on text update
Sent by:        "dia-list" <dia-list-bounces gnome org>



First of all, I really like dia, in my opinion this is the best and most
versatile tool out there for drawing things, fast.

That said, there are a few rough edges.

Is anyone working on making the boxes resize after a text edit?

I'm working on a patch to get this done at the moment, but wanted to check
to see if anyone was doing something similar, or if there is a bugtracker
or something somewhere.

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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 20:36:09 -0400
From: Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>
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Subject: Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update
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Sebastian,

If you use the box (named Process/Auxiliary Operation) in the Flowchart
palette, it has this expanding to fit the text feature you desire.  You can
investigate many pre existing shapes in the palette sheets to learn how to
code this stuff.  The basic tools are what they are - useful building
blocks.
Mike, that's all well and good, however I don't feel that I should have to resort to special shapes in a random flowchart palette. I'll take a look at the palette to get code ideas, however I feel that this is missing functionality from the core of the program. Not just for resizing boxes, but to better control text grouping and shape resizing.
That is I'm saying, this should really be a basic building block of the program. 

Mike

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Sebastian Audet <smaudet2 gmail com> wrote:


Jim,

I understand your concern, however my use case is specific - when you
tag a piece of text to the center of the box, it automatically stays
centered with the box already. The problem is that the box doesn't
resize e.g. if you make the text larger, and it would be nice to have
some way of doing this automatically.

I would think most users who anchor text to boxes would want something
like this to happen, even if you put a label on the top or bottom of
the box. I could see a case where you might not want to do this for
the top/bottom, and even an artistic case where you might want text
not to influence the box size even when its inside the box, and for
this reason I was already thinking there would be someway to turn this
off or on by default and on a case by case basis.

Also I would not want the box to 'shrink' to the text, although I
suppose that could be another feature. I would implement that
separately. I would only want the box to 'grow' as the text became
longer.

Is there something I'm missing that is giving you cause for concern?

Regards,
Sebastian

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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 07:33:48 -0500
From: "Jim Clark" <jclark00 us ibm com>
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Subject: Re: Want to resize Boxes on text update
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Hi Sebastian--

I'm not sure just what you are asking here, and I am sure not making any
changes anywhere. I am a user only,

BUT--I would not want boxes to resize after editing text. (Or ever) I

want

them to be the same size always. Whether full of text or only one word.

Thanks,



    Jim Clark








From:   Sebastian Audet <smaudet2 gmail com>
To:     dia-list gnome org
Date:   08/06/2015 03:49 AM
Subject:        Want to resize Boxes on text update
Sent by:        "dia-list" <dia-list-bounces gnome org>



First of all, I really like dia, in my opinion this is the best and most
versatile tool out there for drawing things, fast.

That said, there are a few rough edges.

Is anyone working on making the boxes resize after a text edit?

I'm working on a patch to get this done at the moment, but wanted to

check

to see if anyone was doing something similar, or if there is a bugtracker
or something somewhere.

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