Yearly Archives: 2000

Been working on the property code for dia I proposed a few months back. This should provide an easy way to construct the property dialogs for objects. Once I add support for it in the python scripting plug-in, we should suddenly have a lot more power in manipulating the diagrams programatically. One other thing to think about is adding support for custom properties for custom shapes. Have been playing around with zope for about a month, and am very happy with it. Very nice to use and very powerful (once you grab a few extra zope products and work out how to use DTML).

Have not posted anything here for a while. I got back from my holiday last wednesday. It was three weeks in New Zealand and a few days in Melbourne. Other than getting my bags lost for two days on the way into NZ, it was a good trip. In Melbourne, I stopped by at my uncle's company Data Electronics. Some of their new products sound very interesting. One problem with the trip was lack of access to email. I had heaps when I got back. I quickly learnt that the signs saying a shop had `Internet/Email' meant they had a web browser with its home page set to hotmail. Not very useful if you need an ssh client. Maybe I should look into one of those java ssh clients for such occasions. Matt Wilson has been doing quite a bit of bug fixing on gnome-python, so we will be making a new release of that soon. A number of people have been doing some work on dia. Mainly Cyrille who has been doing some new object libraries and and a bit of work on other bits. There are also a number of custom shapes that people have done (mainly network related ones) that I need to integrate.