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| -rw-r--r-- | src/ui/dialog/symbols.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/ui/dialog/symbols.h b/src/ui/dialog/symbols.h index b81f6981e..352d24ec0 100644 --- a/src/ui/dialog/symbols.h +++ b/src/ui/dialog/symbols.h @@ -2,9 +2,10 @@ * @brief Symbols dialog */ /* Authors: - * Tavmjong Bah + * Tavmjong Bah, Martin Owens * * Copyright (C) 2012 Tavmjong Bah + * 2013 Martin Owens * * Released under GNU GPL, read the file 'COPYING' for more information */ @@ -29,7 +30,23 @@ namespace Dialog { class SymbolColumns; // For Gtk::ListStore /** - * A dialog that displays selectable symbols. + * A dialog that displays selectable symbols and allows users to drag or paste + * those symbols from the dialog into the document. + * + * Symbol documents are loaded from the preferences paths and displayed in a + * drop-down list to the user. The user then selects which of the symbols + * documents they want to get symbols from. The first document in the list is + * always the current document. + * + * This then updates an icon-view with all the symbols available. Selecting one + * puts it onto the clipboard. Dragging it or pasting it onto the canvas copies + * the symbol from the symbol document, into the current document and places a + * new <use element at the correct location on the canvas. + * + * Selected groups on the canvas can be added to the current document's symbols + * table, and symbols can be removed from the current document. This allows + * new symbols documents to be constructed and if saved in the prefs folder will + * make those symbols available for all future documents. */ class SymbolsDialog : public UI::Widget::Panel { |