Rotating 45°/90°

Is there a plan to make object turnable ? Currently just
mirroring 
exists. I wouldn't need completely free turnable object
(that is 
something for Inkscape etc), but turning by +-90° and 180°
would be 
good, better even turning by 45° increments, tough I cannot
say how easy 
it would be to implement, 90° wise should be easy.
No, my Cwhatever knowledge is not good enough for that to
simply do it, 
my coding skills are from a different era at 6502/7501
times.

regards,

Joachim

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On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 20:14 +0100, Nick Moore wrote:
> Hey Joachim,
> 
> Unfortunately this feature is yet to be implemented in
Dia. I believe
> there is some talk of making at least some objects
rotatable by 90
> degrees by version 1, but I'm afraid I don't know what
progress has
> been made on that. 

No progress has been made on it yet.  I'm pondering making
just the text
object rotatable, as it is simple and would be the most
useful.  Making
all objects rotatable would take significantly more
infrastructure work
than I have time for (esp. when it comes to autolayout).

It does occur to me that 90 degree rotation would be less of
a mess for
autolayout, so that may have to be the first step.

-Lars

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Nick Moore wrote:
> Hey Joachim,
> 
> Unfortunately this feature is yet to be implemented in
Dia. I believe 
> there is some talk of making at least some objects
rotatable by 90 
> degrees by version 1, but I'm afraid I don't know what
progress has been 
> made on that.
> 

I'm not sure why this is a problem any more - Cairo (which
GTK, the base toolkit for dia, 
is now based on) has had supported arbitrary rotations for
some time.

Greg

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Greg Trounson said:
> Nick Moore wrote:
>> Hey Joachim,
>>
>> Unfortunately this feature is yet to be implemented
in Dia. I believe
>> there is some talk of making at least some objects
rotatable by 90
>> degrees by version 1, but I'm afraid I don't know
what progress has been
>> made on that.
>>
>
> I'm not sure why this is a problem any more - Cairo
(which GTK, the base
> toolkit for dia,
> is now based on) has had supported arbitrary rotations
for some time.

It's not a problem in the underlying rendering libraries,
and hasn't been
for a while.  It's a problem of integrating it in Dia:
Updating all
renderers that can support rotation in their output, making
sure objects
don't have to deal with rotation more than absolutely
necessary, getting
autorouting to understand rotated objects, figuring out
bounding boxes and
handle placement, doing something logical for rotated
objects within
rotated groups, making a logical UI -- we're blocked by
nothing but the
time and thought we can put into doing it.

-Lars
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