Future Feature?

[Vic DiFranco]

On Aug 9, 2008, at 7:52 PM, John Oram wrote:

> A few years back in the OG 3.0 days I made an AppleScript that  
> would autosize squares, circles and triangles based on a given area.


Hello John,

	I took a look at your script. Quite an impressive bit of code. Two  
questions:

	1- Am I supposed to copy and paste that code somewhere in  
OmniGraffle? If so, where? Please be specific, because I do not know  
too much about Applescript (actually, almost nothing).
	2- Your code permits the user to size certain objects to a given  
area. That's good, but the more critical features is to determine a  
given object's area, since the object may have been created by  
following a previously defined route. In my case, I outline a  
property survey, which was previously imported into OmniGraffle, to  
determine the property's size. The outline is NOT necessarily  
straight, but is usually a bezier curve/polygon, and is often oddly  
shaped. Do you know if that feature will be included in a future  
upgrade? By the way, I know that must be a difficult thing to code  
for, but several other applications do that, so it can be done. (Hmm,  
I wonder if their calculations are accurate?)

	I am an engineer, so I have some thoughts on algorithms which would  
make this calculation. But since I know NOTHING about writing  
computer code (other than macros for Excel and Panorama), I haven't a  
clue on implementing these algorithms in OmniGraffle Applescript.

	Best regards,
	Vic DiFranco