Dia is a program for drawing structured diagrams. Dia is a GNU program, and is Free Software. See the COPYING file for the license. NEWS ---- dia-0.90: 30-May-2002 * startup menu entries are installed for all users now * a load-time compatibility issue with files produced by 0.88.1 was found and fixed for some UML objects. * we now better use the intltool facilities * various build problems on Solaris fixed and/or documented. dia-0.90.RC2: 24-May-2002 * increased tolerance to broken XML files * ER objects can have their text size changed * a couple bugs (i18n, l10n, p9y) fixed dia-0.90.RC1: 13-May-2002 * from now on, all XML files produced by dia will be encoded as UTF-8. This version of dia is also capable of reading dia file encoded with any other encoding the libxml2 parser embedded in libxml1 is able to understand. One exception: the encoding declaration >must< be present. * all previously generated XML files (.pluginrc and .dia files, mostly) will now cause a warning about a missing encoding, and the default dia will take. If you have properly compiled dia, it should choose the charset you normally use. This is normal and there is no other sane possible way. * Metapost renderer * Faster Postscript files. * More options in the UML Class dialog. * An optional menu bar can be added to each display window, in addition to the popup menu. * ongoing UTF-8 audit. * Shapes can now have a element. * polybeziers and beziergons now have their bounding box properly computed. * a few new shapes have been added. * crashes in the right-click menu have been nailed. Using Dia on Windoze -------------------- Simply run the installer and start working... If you encounter any problems, please read the FAQ first !!! A version of the FAQ is available in the Start Menu after Installation - the latest and greatest is available on the dia website. More information on dia Win32 can be found on the dia Win32 Installer homepage: http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net This is also the place to look for updates. dia is free software and lives from the feedback of the users. Take the time to report all your bugs. Mailing List and bug tracking system are in place - If you don't feel comfortable, please contact me... Steffen Macke -- Homepage for dia is at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html The Win32 port is available at: http://hans.breuer.org/dia The mailing list of Dia is: dia-list@lysator.liu.se (It is the place to ask questions about Dia in general and probably even the fastest way to get answers concerning the Win32 port. You don't need to be subscribed to mail to the list.) The source code is in gnome cvs. -- Dia Development on Win32 Like Gimp for Win32 Dia is based on the Gtk+ libraries ported by Tor Lillquist. Some of the problems in Dia may be caused by bugs in these libraries, because they are on heavy development as well. For more information about the port or GLib, GTk+ and the GIMP to native Windows, and pre-built binary packages, see http://www.gimp.org/win32/ or http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ . The only compiler used for the Win32 is Microsoft Visual C (5.0). There are four hand written makefiles, which are available in cvs, too. Beside Gtk+ there are some additional libraries required (gdk-pixbuf, libxml, libart). They are all available in cvs but using them on Win32 required minimal changes. I'll try to provide development version of the cuurently used versions on my website very soon. Compiling Dia (Win32) --------------------- Currently only the Micro$oft VC 5.0 compiler is supported (VC 6.0 should work). -1) Create your build environment (normally based on tml's latest Gtk+ snapshot). Instead of asking me how to do this, you'll probably want to join the gimpwin-dev mailing list (see: http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/) -0) Get additonal required libraries (libxml, gdk-pixbuf, libart, ...). I'm planning to integrate my small patches to cvs, too. But this may take some while, because they need to be conform with Gnome maintenance. 1) Get the latest Dia sources from cvs. 2) nmake -f makefile.msc in directories lib, app, objects, plug-ins 3) If the build succeeded, fine. If not, fix the sources and send me patches or use the binaries. Please don't bother me with beginners questions about C, VC, makefiles, etc.. Because I'm doing the port in my free time, which is generally limited. Instead of answering beginners questions, you probably want me to use my spare time, to build the latest, greatest Dia version. 4) Copy the files to their directories (see binary package) Have Fun, Hans Breuer