On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:11:35 +0200 Florian Lindner <mailinglists@...3086...> wrote:

Hello,

I try to translate the Inkscape labels back to English from German, therefore they may not be exactly the same.

In Inkscape there are object connectors (Objektverbinder) which can snap to another objects border. Can I set these connectors to stay snapped to the object, even when the object is being moved?

Thanks a lot, Florian

On every Inkscape I've used, the lines between boxes, which I assume is what you mean by object connectors, have always moved when a box at either end of them was moved. If you're not getting that behavior, check that they're really locked on. You drag an end to a box, cruise along its border til the box turns a different color, and then you know that end is locked to the border of that box.

You can also lock a connector to the center of a box, and for whatever reason, that's a lot easier.

HTH,

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:50:18 -0400 Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 13:11 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:

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In Inkscape there are object connectors (Objektverbinder) which can snap to another objects border. Can I set these connectors to stay snapped to the object, even when the object is being moved?

Not at the moment, the snapping is not permanent.

The connector's tool however does allow lines to be drawn between objects which will move, these are from the centers to the other centers of the objects.

Martin,

Hi Martin and Florian,

I'm so sorry. I read and replied the email too fast, and for some reason I thought you were speaking of Dia, not Inkscape. Yes, Inkscape's connectors don't follow the objects.

What I usually do for flowcharts, block diagrams and the like is design them in Dia, where connectors *do* follow objects, and then run the following conversion script to convert it to plain SVG:

=========================================================== #!/bin/bash dianame=$1 gname=`echo $dianame | sed -e "s/..*$//"` svgname=$gname.svg echo Converting $dianame to $svgname inkscape --export-background=#ffffff --export-use-hints --export-plain-svg=$svgname $dianame mirage $svgname ===========================================================

Once again, sorry for the brain fart and resulting misinformation.

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance