Re: Line pointed to center of circle

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

Greetings, Michael Ross!

> This is the same behavior I was referring to.  When you are placing the line
> on the circle it shows the whole line, but when you release it the part of
> the line from the border to the center is invisible.

For the "perfect circle" it's not true.
The line is clearly attached to the circle edge (the line anchor is drawn
there), while retaining it's mental connection to the circle center. It looks
much like "Perfect circle" have unlimited connection points along it's edge,
dynamically reassigned to connected lines as the shape is moved.

> If you move the circle the line clearly is attached at the center, it moves
> around the circumference rather than being attached to a connection point on
> the circumference.  This is nice if you want to put some text of other item
> inside the circle, and not see the ray behind it.

Well, yes. It's all nice as long as you're using standard shapes.
I was trying to reproduce the same behavior with custom shape to no success.
The best approximation I've come up with is when I use line absolure start/end
cuts, which gives a headache when I want to resize shape. I have to manually
adjust respective end of the line afterward.
Adding a "Circle" or more flexible "Ellipse" connection shape would be a
solution, though.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 20.09.2011, <16:10>

Sorry for my terrible english...