Re: nudge an object?

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 09:27 -0700, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 02:06:50 -0700, <christian ridderstrom gmail com>  
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 May 2006, Michael Ross wrote:
> >
> > > On 5/18/06, Anthony Ettinger <aettinger sdsualumni org> wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to nudge an object with the up/down/left/right arrows?
> >
> > > I vote for that.
> >
> > Yes, pretty please.  (I know two other drawing programs where the arrow
> > keys move things rather than scroll - I find that much more intuitive).
>
> if (!object_is_selected)
>    scroll();
> else
>    nudge_selected_objects();

A little simplified, I'm afraid, but I like the basic idea.  Took a
short look at it, and there's somewhat more work to it than that, for
one thing child objects should behave correctly, for another we may or
may not want to break connections, depending on what we're moving.  A
patch would be welcome, though.

-Lars