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

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 06:38:50PM -0500, Ron Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:50 PM,  <dia-list-request gnome org> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 21:50:08 +0000
> > From: Chris G <cl isbd net>
> >
> > The 'use' case is in circuit diagrams where I much prefer the use of
> > little arcs to indicate that wires are not connected when crossing
> > rather than the convention that crossing wires are not connected and T
> > wires are connected.  Thus I need quite a lot of 'little arcs' and often
> > need to move them around extensively.  They also need to be a lot
> > smaller than the other circuit symbols.
>
> Are you familier with creating new shapes?
>
> Seems to me that creating a shape for this arc would acheive what you
> are asking for. (You might need to create 2 versions of the shape, one
> vertically oriented and the other horizontal.) Even a tiny shape
> object is probably easier to grab than the arcs you have been drawing.

I tried several times to create a new shape for this and failed
miserably! :-)  I'll maybe have another go at it.

-- 
Chris Green