Re: Rotation GUI

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 26 Aug 2003, MÃrten Svantesson wrote:
> Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> writes:
>
> > Yeah, rotation is one of our weak (read: non-existant) points.  As soon
> > as I figure out a good UI for it, though...  I'm glad that you were able
> > to work around it.
>
> I just found the program Omni Graffle on a Mac OS X computer at
> school. It seems to be a program similar in purpuse to Dia. A screen
> shot of how rotation is done can be found here:
>
> http://www.f.kth.se/~f95-msv/omnigraffle.pdf
>
> Basicly it's a part of the object preferences. It works nice I think.

That would do for a first implementation (shouldn't be too hard to make a
little rotate widget), but I'd like to eventually have it in-diagram.

-Lars

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