L i n k s
L i n k s |
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Some links to...
| Tutorials and documentation | |
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| Dia Tutorial | Dia tutorial written by Harry George |
| Dia documentation | A chapter about Dia from the book "The GNU/Linux Desktop" by Kayon Toga |
| UML Tutorial | A nice little UML tutorial using Dia |
| Dia Mailing List | The Dia mailing list, for developers and users alike. |
| Tools that generate Dia diagrams | |
| AutoDia | AutoDia is a modular application that parses source code or data (if a handler is available) and produces an XML document in Dia format. Handlers for Perl, C++, Java and PHP are available. (This used to be called AutoDIAL.) |
| Diazy | Diazy is an open source software package that is modeled after portions of the proprietary system Rational Rose. Diazy's two main objectives are to generate a source code framework from a UML diagram that was created in the popular open source-diagramming tool Dia. It will also generate a Dia UML class relationship diagram form any object oriented code source. |
| pstoshape.pl | A perl script that attempts to extract connected shapes from PostScript files. In some cases, this makes it very easy to generate shapes. |
| EMF Decoder | A Perl script that attempts to decode Visio documents (even inside Word documents) by looking at the EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) part. Unfortunately, Visio 2002 only uses bitmaps for EMF, but older files can be converted with some restrictions. |
| HappyDoc | HappyDoc generates documentation for Python programs, and can output Dia diagrams. |
| Synopsis | Synposis is a documentation extraction tool. It can output Dia diagrams among other things. It doesn't try to do layout. |
| ArgoUML2Dia | ArgoUML2Dia converts from the ArgoUML format to Dia, though not all object types are supported yet. |
| SchemaMania.org | SchemaMania.org aims to be a repository for database design schemas. |
| PostgreSQL AutoDoc | A perl script which takes the database structure and exports an XML file which Dia can use, together with various documentation formats. This used to be called Postgres_to_Dia. |
| Agata | Agata Report is a Report Generator, written in PHP-GTK. Allows you to edit and get SQL results from several Databases as Text or PostScript Files. It can generate Dia diagrams with all the tables you are working on. |
| Medoosa | Medoosa is a documentation tool for C++ that can produce UML class diagrams including generalizations and associations. Corrections can be made interactively in a diagram editor (Dia) and are fed back into the source as Javadoc-style comments. |
| cpp2dia | "cpp->dia" aka "cpp2dia" has been developed to create UML diagrams for Dia from an existing C++ source. "cpp->dia" is a small console based Tcl script, that should not be too intractable. The main focus for "cpp->dia" is at creating nice-looking UML diagrams, and not writing an high-end parser for C++ code. Therefore "cpp->dia" uses "ctags" to do the main work on parsing the C++ source. To layout the UML graph in a not-random way, "cpp->dia" can utilize "Graphviz" from A T & T Labs. |
| OraSchemaDoc | The goal of oraschemadoc is "JavaDoc" style detailed documentation for all objects in schemas covering Oracle specific features. The result of executing oraschemadoc is a set of static html files. It is also possible to export the datamodel to Dia UML Diagram. |
| Tools that generates something from Dia diagrams | |
| teDia2SQL | Dia2SQL is a Perl script to convert Dia diagrams to SQL databases, by Tim Ellis. It supports a number of database systems, including Sybase, Postgres, Oracle, DB/2, MS-SQL, MySQL, and others. It is the most complete Dia-to-DB program available. |
| Nautilus Thumbnails | A bunch of scripts that create thumbnails for Nautilus. They support Dia file format. |
| Dia2Code | Dia2Code is a small utility used to generate code from a Dia diagram. |
| Dia2SQL | Dia2SQL is a Perl script to convert Dia diagrams to SQL databases, by Alexander Troppmann. |
| Dia2SQL | Dia2SQL is also a Perl script to convert Dia diagrams (exported as EPS) to SQL databases, by Douglas Spencer. |
| Eros | Eros is another a Perl script to convert Dia diagrams to SQL databases, by Roberto Andrade Fonseca. |
| Dia2SQL | Dia2SQL is yet another transformer from Dia to SQL, this one written in PHP. |
| Dia2SQLpy | Dia2SQLpy is yet another transformer from Dia to SQL, this one written in Python. It supports both PostgreSQL and MySQL. |
| Dia2Postgres | Dia2Postgres is a Perl script that can be used to convert Dia diagrams into PostgreSQL scripts or PHP mirror classes which can add, update and modify entries automatically. It has support for inheritance, simple references (limited to a single field), and a fake enum type which creates a table. |
| dia2fsm | dia2fsm takes a dia diagram containing an FSM specification (please see the user guide for details of general usage and the UML objects to use) and forward generates skeleton code. The current version (V 0.0.2) supports C and C++ code generation (Java coming soon), and also creates a makefile to allow the skeleton code to be built and tested. It will also create an input file for AT & T's dot application, and generate a PNG image of the machine on request. The generated code is _not_ intended to be an academically sound FSM implementation, but is intended to provide an efficient, working state machine. dia2fsm is written in C++, and although it is built on Win2K only at present, any platform-sensitive code is implemented with the Qt library. |
| Dia ports | |
| Dia for Win32 | Yes, you can now use dia on windows ... |
| Dia Win32 Installer | Dia setup program for Windows with uninstall option. |
| Cool uses of Dia | |
| ecolNet | ecolNet uses Dia to dynamically generate graphs of service relationships. A novel application. |
| Dia sightings in the news | |
| Newsforge | An article that explains basic use of Dia 0.94 in a positive, but not jubilant light. Includes a bit about how to make new shapes, though he missed the fact that you can save .shape files from Dia. |
| Software Development Magazine | An article about Visio that mentions Dia as a not-quite-as-polished version of Visio. Requires free registration. |
| O'Reilly Linux Network Administration | An article comparing four diagramming programs for Linux (Dia (v0.83), Tgif, Tkined, Xfig). Finds hierarchial views very important. |
| IBM developerWorks | Third part of an article series about metaprogramming, this article uses Dia as the example tool for implementing the idea of Model Driven Architecture. |
| Underlying code | |
| DiaCanvas widget | A Gtk+ canvas widget based on the Dia canvas code |
| The gimp | A free Photoshop like image editor for Unix |
| GTK.org | The Gimp toolkit, the toolkit used by Dia. |
| Gnome | Gnu Object Model Enviroment. A desktop enviroment for Unix. |
| Related programs | |
| Vector graphics foundry | The SourceForge Vector Graphics Foundry is a list of programs dealing with vector graphics. It lists many smaller, specialized programs as well as the generalized ones. |
| Visio | A diagram creation program for Windows. The inspiration for Dia. Now bought by Microsoft. |
| Ideogramic | Two specialized diagramming programs, one for UML, one for generic diagrams. Commercially available for Linux and Windows. |
| Kivio | The KDE diagram program, closely modelled on Visio. |
| ArgoUML | A UML editor written in Java. |
| JGraph | A highly configurable Java-based diagramming editor. |
| Gaphor | A UML editor based on DiaCanvas2. |
| RoboChart | A commercial diagramming program for Sparc and Linux systems. Offers a no-save evaluation download. |
| Tkined | A diagramming program specialized for networks. |
| Ideagraph | A simple idea visualization tool. |
| Xfig | Quite old vector drawing program for X11. |
| Tgif | A vector drawing program for X11 with hierarchial objects. |
| OmniGraffle | A commercial diagramming program for Mac OS X. |
| Ipe | An extensible drawing editor for creating figures for inclusion in LaTeX documents. |
| Sodipodi | A vector drawing program using GTK. |
| Sketch | A drawing package for X windows. |
| Gyve | A free vector drawing program for Unix. |
| idraw | A vector-graphics program. |
Graphics of this web site are made with the Gimp and Xfig by Toussaint Frédéric