Hi, would it be possible to include a mode in Dia where the closest connectionpoint or handle was always selected, regardless of distance?
Such a mode would, in my opinion, greatly simplify some editing task as it would no longer be necessary to carefully position the mouse pointer over each connectionpoint. Instead it would be enough to merely point the mouse in the vicinity of each connectionpoint. I have created a small patch [1] that adds this functionality when you press the v button. It is quite ugly and has some warts (e.g., changing mode even when editing text), but I hope that it shows the potential with such a mode. Another feature which seems to be lacking is a custom paper size. I started to add such a feature to the patch as well and got it working well enough for my personal needs, but this part is even rougher than the "force closest connectionpoint/handle" part. Anyway, I made this video on youtube where I tried to show how the patch simplifies some drawing tasks: http://www.youtube.com/user/ehliar#p/a/u/0/kiBVKydURdQ regards /Andreas [1] http://www.da.isy.liu.se/~ehliar/stuff/ugly-connectionpoint-hack.diff _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
