Abillity to give different fill colors

[RavenNevermore]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for an awesome tool.

I noticed, that (sadly) when using the #fill directive, one can only color the whole diagram in the same color.

It would be great, if I could switch up those directives, to color code parts of the diagram. Maybe by putting them inside the declared object (like yuml does) or by simply being able to switch them out.

So:

#fill:red
[A]
[B]

#fill:blue
[C]

[A]->[C]

Would create a diagram, where 'A' and 'B' are filled red, but 'C' is filled blue.

Thanks.

[skanaar]

Thanks 😊

nomnoml is trying to be a tool where you enter pure structure, and it handles all rendering aspects. Of course this rendering can be controlled - but intentionally with a crude level of control.
I have been mostly concerned with the layouting aspect of this crude control (it will probably never offer detailed control over the positioning of boxes and arrows).

But nothing is impossible - If this is a much requested feature I might reconsider.

[mrzmyr]

+1

[palra]

As discussed in #36, using directives only to restrained sections of the code would be great. Something that could be done is something like defining a scope for the directive.

{
  #fill:red
  [A]
  [B]
}
{
  #fill:blue
  [C]
}

[A]->[C]

In this case, A and B would be rendered in red, C in blue.

[skanaar]

This has been implemented as Custom Classifier Styles. 🎉
Should be a reusable and stringent way of adapting the diagrams to your needs.

#.box: fill=#8f8
#.blob: fill=pink visual=ellipse dashed bold italic
[<box> GreenBox]
[<blob> HideousBlob]

Happy nomling 🐳