Re: Question about handles

["Sameer Sahasrabuddhe" <sameerds gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Don Blaheta <blahedo blahedo org> wrote:

> The real question is, what would it mean to have a non-movable handle
> that you could connect to a ConnectionPoint when the CP's object moves
> around.  With (say) a Line, that end of the line drags; with a
> hypothetical ConnectibleBox the box corner or side could drag itself
> along.  But with something that is not resizable via handles, this would
> have to end up being essentially a grouping operator---dragging the
> object along with it.

The last one sounds like the situation where a text object is
connected to a line. When  you resize or move the line, the text
object gets dragged along.

> I have a bias towards self-documenting code, which is why my
> contribution elsewhere in this thread is of the form "this is what I'd
> name the classes and variables", but that's obviously not the only way
> to go.  The real goal is to put together documentation, if only a thread
> on the mailing list, that gives a code-reader some intuitions about how
> the data interacts, so that when they go back and reread it, they can
> actually make sense of it this time.

Threads on a mailing list are useless. It would be far more useful if
this somehow got turned into a documentation patch at least, if not a
renaming patch. And of course the best person to do that is the one
who is actually delving into that pile of code!

Sameer.
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