Questions tagged [dia]

DIA is a cross-platform open-source diagramming tool.

DIA is an open-source diagramming tool, inspired by Visio.

It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

Dia available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from: http://dia-installer.de

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How to change font in Dia and fix its font rendering issues?

Excuse me for my probably stupid questions. First, I cannot configure font used by Dia. I couldn't find it anywhere in its scanty preferences. The only way to change the font I found so far - is for the secific object, e.g. Flowchart:Box. But it…
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How to input Chinese in dia

My environment: Ubuntu 18.04 dia is a wonderful tool to draw flowchart. While I cannot input Chinese in box. I have tried fcitx and ibus and both failed. Someone has prompt a method that edit script dia. But after dia upgrade,there is no dia-normal…
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Does This ER Schema Make Sense

here is an updated version Given the following requirements, We have three distinct types of workers: receptionists, nurses, and doctors. Any of the workers can be a patient. Each person has a first, last, possibly a middle name, and one or more…
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Drawing described UML diagram with inheritance

I have some objects that I want to draw a UML diagram for. The first, A, is an interface, and second, B, is an abstract class which is derived from A. The other class are C and D. C and D are subclasses of B. B has a list of E class objects. F is…
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Symbols Enumeration callback function called more than once for the same symbol?

I've wrote a small program that uses the dbghelp library to print all the symbols for some executable. The main enumeration function that i call is : SymEnumSymbols that should receive a callback that would be called for each symbol. I tried to run…
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How to compare two Dia diagrams?

Is there any utility or add-on to make it possible to compare two Dia diagrams? I have a diagram of a database schema in Dia, mercurial tells me that the .dia file has changed, but I don't know what has changed. It's probably a field added into a…
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dia2code for code generation

I plan to use dia to create an UML diagram, and then dia2code to generate a python code. The dia examples are useful: # Operations def add_update(self): """function add_update returns """ But here, i have nothing return None #…
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How to generate a .class.php file on the software Dia with the plugin uml2php5 with an abstract class?

I need to generate a .class.php from an UML chart with uml2php5 on Dia. There is no problem with the instanciable class which have attributes and methods, the file is correctly exported. The issue is with the abstract class. There is no file…
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Adding a stereotype to an attribute in Dia

Is there a proper way of adding a stereotype to an attribute (not operation) in Dia? So far I'm inserting stereotypes to attribute names, but it has a slightly different order. What I have: +<> count: Int How (I think) it should look…
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Total participation in Dia

I have just started to use Dia for designing ER diagrams and I cannot seem to find a way to show total participation, which is usually expressed by a double line. Thank you.
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Trying to build dia on Windows with MinGW

I'm trying to build dia on my windows system with the MinGW toolkit. What I did: Downloaded GTK all-in-one package and unpackged it to C:\gtk and did the setup described in the readme. Downloaded intltool-0.50.2 and unpacked it into the C:\gtk…
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Dia pdf export (windows)

I have created some flowcharts in Dia (diaw.exe 0.97.2 - Windows 7 64 bit). Now I want to export them to pdf. This is working alright if I use File > Page Setup > Fit to... Problem is, Diagrams with different sizes all get zoomed differently. My…
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Adding line in Dia automatically sets to centre?

I'm trying to annotate a picture with the Dia application, by placing description boxes connected to arrows pointing to certain points on picture. However the arrows keep snapping to the centre of the workspace, how can I avoid this happening? I've…
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How to click on check box inside confirm box in selenium webdriver in java

i have one modal dialog. I wanted to click on check box. How to do that using selenium webdriver in java here is the link http://sislands.com/coin70/week1/dialogbox.htm u can click there and will get checkbox
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Class diagram tool able to display comments?

I'm creating a class diagram. The purpose is communication and visualisation, not code generation or other processing, so I don't have to stick to UML rules. I made a quick starting point with Dia, a program that I have some experience using. While…
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