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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Flake
From:       "Peter Simonsson" <peter.simonsson () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-04-21 6:19:18
Message-ID: 9966b3040604202319l1b1732b3lb0dc5f0764e2c8d5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2006/4/21, Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann@zagge.de>:
> On Thursday 20 April 2006 19:07, Peter Simonsson wrote:
> > 2006/4/20, Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann@zagge.de>:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > before I go on implement some more in flake I have a question and would
> > > like to know what you think about it.
> > >
> > > At the moment (in kpresenter) we display handles in the corners and in
> > > the middle of the edges for resizing. The questions is do we want to keep
> > > it like this.
> > >
> > > There are some other technics which can be used:
> > > 1. Like in inkscape
> > >    The selected objects get a selection rect at the edge of the corner
> > > and have the handles outside of the selection rect of all selected
> > > object. 2. A mix between karbon and inkscape
> > >    The selected objects get a selection rect at the edge and have handles
> > >    like the flake selection shows at the moment.
> > >
> > > Some points why I think it would be good to change:
> > >
> > > - If you have an object which lies in front of the selected object you
> > > cannot see some handles.
> > > - The object does not need to know if it is selected, as the selection is
> > > painted by the selection object and not by the selected object. This
> > > would make the code easier.
> > >
> > > Some points why this might be not so good:
> > >
> > > - resize of one selected and rotated object (e.g. a rectangle) how would
> > > we do this? Background: we want to have the possibility to resize the
> > > object without changing its form. The selection would have to know that
> > > the object is rotated.
> > >
> > > I'm sure I forgot a lot so please let me know what you think.
> >
> > Hmm how would you see if an object is selected or not? You can have
> > both selected and umselected objects within a selection's bounding
> > rect so I'd say it's more obvious as is.
>
> In inkscape every selected object has a dashed line rectangle around every
> selected object. The only dashed rectangle which will have handles in any way
> is the complete selection rectangle.
>
Ah ok I thought you didn't want to draw the rect either...

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Peter Simonsson
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