Re: Is it possible to force a 'grab' rather than a resize for small objects?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 09.02.2011 13:25, Chris G wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:00:19AM -0800, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:23:32 -0800, Chris G<cl isbd net>  wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:21:01PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > > I have some small arc objects on some of my diagrams and they're very
> > > > difficult to move as it's nearly impossible not to hit one of the resize
> > > > end/mid points.  Is there any way one can force a move rather than a
> > > > resize?
> > > No answers to this?
> >
> > Have you tried zooming in using Ctrl+Wheel to make it easier?
That would be have me my answer, too ...
> That's one possibility, yes,but everything else is a 'sensible' size
... but I thought it was too obvious that you ask about it.
I still don't get the use case of your request though. How do you position 
the arcs if the only thing cou can see are it's handles?

> when un-zoomed and I'd often want to move the little arcs off the edge
> of the zoomed view.  It would make moving them a bit of a laborious
> process, zoom in, grab object, move it,
Having wildly different sized objects is tedious, yes. Feels like you are 
getting what you asked for ;)

> find I can't move it far enough,  zoom out, etc.
Are you aware that you can move further than the visible area and Dia 
scrolls the view accordingly?

> It feels like there could be something like CTRL+click which forces a
> grab.
Just adding more modifiers to the already complex combinations does not 
sound like a viable option to me. As mentioned above I'm still not sure if 
I completely got the use case.
But also I have doubts if you completely evaluated exisiting options for 
selection - you do not need to 'grab' an object to move it, you can move 
objects by cursor keys, ...

It may also help, that handles in a group of selected objects are not any 
longer resizing the objects when grabbed. Instead the whole selection is 
moving.

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