Re: The connection bug, was: Re: [Gzz] Summing up...

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 10:41:01AM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> 
> >Me:
> > 
> >
> >>No, it *is* related to scaling: in the right coordinate system, (2,2) 
> >>*would*
> >>be the lower right corner. 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Sorry, I mean (1,1) of course.
> >
> >And center would be (0,0) or (.5,.5), depending on the coordinate system
> >convention used.
> >
> >So, I ask again: should we make scaling work in AWT, at least for that 
> >case?
> > 
> >
> 
> More precisely than I said in my other email: SimpleConnection, the 
> class in question, uses RenderInfo.xform; 

Oh, really? I had forgotten we did that in AWT - yes, that's true,
that would help.

> AFAIK that works just as 
> intended. It worked before when the connections were placed in the box 
> coordinate systems. Now it doesn't work anymore for the sole reason 
> (AFAIK) that the connections are not placed in the box coordinate 
> systems any more. So I don't see how making scaling work in AWT would 
> help: placing the connection in the box coordinate system is both 
> necessary and sufficient. (It is not, however, trivial, because the 
> views, which are placing the connections, don't currently know about the 
> box cs-- see both VobVanishingClient and RowColView.)

They probably should know.

        Tuomas