Re: Answer to /Manual?, Claus Ritter/ Re: Manual?, Steffen Macke

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Tue, Jun 04, 2002, à 09:21:48AM +0200, Claus Ritter a écrit:

> Open questions for me are:
> - is there the possibilty to hierarchically organize a design? E.g. a
> block represents a part of the circuit specified in another dia diagram.
> Is this possible at all?

There has been expressed interest in that, but no one has shown code (to my
knowledge). The URL proposal of (yesterday ?) could be used as a basis (like
in: if the URL is a relative url to a dia file, then behave hierarchically)

> - is it possible to define my own menus with the right mouse button on
> objects(groups), like VISIO?

Unlike Visio, you do have the source.

> In a longterm I plan also to visualize the state of the hardware for
> every clock cycle. Therefore it's interesting how flexible(fast) the
> interface of dia is when the program gets data delivered from an
> external source? 

I don't know.

> This work now is purely academic (I'm in a scientific institution), but
> in the future it can become commercial. Right now I'm in the search for
> a program fullfilling the above requests for the commercial hardware
> simulator I want to use. I started with VISIO which is able to do the
> above things, but the hardware simulator is written in LINUX and we
> don't want to have different OS.

You have the right and freedom to do a lot of things with dia, and are more 
than welcome to do so, provided this complies with the terms and conditions
of the GPL.

> If anybody can help me with my questions I would be very thankful. 
> Dia is a powerful tool and I really want to use it in my tool chain. But
> I need descriptions of the interfaces.

You already have it, in the same language the software is using: C. Besides,
there was discussion on that topic... yesterday ! which you may want to
read.

	-- Cyrille

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