On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:36:51PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:44:19 +0200 (CEST), xmk637-dev@...266... <xmk637-dev@...266...> wrote:
Now, what I have mostly been doing with Visio as a developer is modelling software development, with methodologies, like ERD-, or all kinds of UML-diagramms.
My question is: do you have the goal or plan - and if yes, when - to add similar features and patterns to inkscape?
I'd expect inkscape to acquire some dia features over time, but dia will be a better tool than inkscape for the likes of UML, flowcharts and entity relationship diagrams for considerable time: such diagrams are after all the principle intended use for dia, whereas inkscape has more general aims.
For UML, you may be interested in ancillary programs like autodia that extract dia-format UML diagrams from source code, and I believe the other direction exists too.
Dia can export as an SVG image (currently without any semantic markup), and it may for all I know be able to import SVG images (as uneditable pictures). This may facilitate using Dia and Inkscape together. The software doesn't allow round-tripping between .dia and .svg though.
We have some preliminary work done on live connectors (you drag a box, the connector attached to it follows). By the way, Peter, what is the status of that? What remains to be done?
It was developed to the point that it was useful for what I wanted to do with it, and not much past that. It isn't ready for end-users. In a week or two, Michael Wybrow intends to start looking at it. I've suggested as a familiarity task that he add a signal like _transformed_connection but more suited to connectors than to clones. His main interest is in routing of the connectors; I don't whether or not he'd be interested in doing the "front-end" side of things either.
pjrm.