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Bug 115238 - first four shapes in flowchart have vague names, request addition or alternative
first four shapes in flowchart have vague names, request addition or alternative
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: dia
Classification: Other
Component: shapes
0.91
Other All
: Normal minor
: 1.0
Assigned To: Alan Horkan
Dia maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-15 15:13 UTC by Pander
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
resolution for bug (647.79 KB, application/octet-stream)
2004-02-20 19:49 UTC, Pander
Details

Description Pander 2003-06-15 15:13:42 UTC
The first four shapes in the flowchart shapes have vague/generic names.
Perhaps these can be extended/replaced with the proper function of these
shapes for flowcharts.

in stead of:
  A box with text inside
use the string:
  Process

(perhaps split this into a nonsquare retangular box for Process and a
square box for Auxiliary Operation, or make the string Process / Auxiliary
Operation)

in stead of:
  A parallelogram with text inside
use the string:
  Input/Output

in stead of:
  A diamond with text inside
use the string:
  Decision

in stead of:
  A ellips with text inside
use the string:
  Connector

There are also some other string that could use names which are more extensive

in stead of:
  Terminal
use the string:
  Terminal Interrupt

There are also some shapes missing

a 3D version of Punched Card which is called Card Deck

and a version of Punched Card which is called Card File with on the top
right corner an extra corner like (ASCII art):
         ___
 _________  |
/         | |
|         |
|         |
|_________|

And an Offpage Connector is missing.

More info on ISO Standard 1028 "Information Processing -- Flowchart
Symbols" I've scanned in and can be found overhere (from 16th of June onwards)

http://www.animus-imperat.com/pub/flow1.jpg
http://www.animus-imperat.com/pub/flow2.jpg
http://www.animus-imperat.com/pub/flow3.jpg

I hope this all is usefull for the dia shapes.
Comment 1 Alan Horkan 2003-07-30 16:58:52 UTC
If you could provide a patch (cvs diff -u  attach to this report and
add the PATCH keyword) it would be very helpful.  

Comment 2 Pander 2003-09-28 11:51:29 UTC
I'm fixing this bug myself and will be sending patch files real soon.
Also .jpg files are finally available.
Comment 3 Pander 2004-02-20 19:49:18 UTC
Created attachment 24616 [details]
resolution for bug
Comment 4 Pander 2004-02-20 19:50:58 UTC
Pander provided fix, see attachment and include it (after review) in
the development tree.
Comment 5 Hans Breuer 2004-06-11 15:23:51 UTC
This appears to be already fixed by :

2003-08-11  Lars Clausen  <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>

	* sheets/Flowchart.sheet.in: Updated descriptions

and the attached "thing" is not a di9ff as it is supposed to be. Anyway I've
started the download - but stopped it after getting about half a meg (of binary
junk - application/octet-stream ?) probably not useful anyway. Closing as invalid