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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: kpresenter patch. more code cleanup ...
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-10 10:30:40
Message-ID: 200401101130.42063.zander () kde ! org
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On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:18, Thorsten Zachmann wrote:
> > One thing with aligning came to my mind since I did some gui building
> > with JBuilder. In JBuilder, if you select more than one object, the
> > objects all get aligned to the object that was first selected and not to
> > the bounding rectangle of all objects. I found this somewhat convenient.
> > In most cases I want to align the selected objects with the border of
> > another object that I can choose and not with the object that is most
> > left, top, right or bottom.

> I also know this from CorelDraw. We can open a wish that the feature should
> work like this. But there are still some things which should be considered
> before changing. One that comes into my mind is, what happens when more
> than one object is selected at once. Maybe there are others.

This functionality also exists in FrameMaker (the mother of all DTP 
applications).
The only way to select more then one box at a time it to use a select all 
function. Then the most-top-left one is used.

- -- 
Thomas Zander
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