Sub-shape with 2 parms in shape script

[qwerty]

Someone getting sick of this? Well, I am...

I tried to use sub-shapes with 2 parameters where layoutType="border". It seems that only "N" and "CENTER" produce results, both being the same. Using "S" shows some strange result in the preview, but none at all on the real diagram.

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[Eve]

Again, it's used in BPMN. If using Border you MUST specify a default height/width.

[qwerty]

Again: no!

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shape main {
      layouttype = "border";
 h_align = "left";
      noshadow = "true";
      DefSize(200,100);
      setfillcolor(0,0,255);
 rectangle(0,0,100,100);
 addsubshape("sub","s");
 shape sub {
  setfillcolor(0,255,0);
  ellipse(10,10,90,90);
 }
}"n" and "center" place it in the center. Just see what "s" produces :-(

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[Eve]

Here's a tip. I am trying to help you. It's not my job to look up the help for you. But you could find the answer in the sub-shapes topic.

• Border - This requires an additional argument to the addsubshape method to specify which region of the containing shape the sub-shape is to occupy: N, E, S, W or CENTER; each region can only be occupied by one sub-shape
  

A sub-shape that is assigned to the E or W region must have its preferredwidth attribute specified in its declaration and, similarly, sub-shapes added to N or S must have their preferredheight attribute set; in this case, the values for these attributes are treated as static lengths and do not scale glyphs

[qwerty]

I really appreciate what you do, Simon. And you are right: I missed this sentence right below (probably it should be part of the Border paragraph, not one on its own). However, have a look at this example:
You see the preview? Not exactly what the final shape looks like (try omitting either the "S" or "N" and see what happens then). Now further I would expect either of them to occupy only the 50 units, not something like 75.

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