Thanks for the answer, and the tip. I will do that now.

Cyril

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Hans Breuer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Cyril,
> At 07.07.2011 13:30, Cyril SANTUNE wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> When I use align top or bottom, I can "cheat" to align an object B
>> with an objet A without move the object A
>>
>> For example, I want that A and B are align on top. But I don't want to
>> move A. So I move B under A to be sure only the object B move when I
>> use align top.
>>
> Yes this is how alignment is implemented. The bounding lines - in your
> example the top of the selection bounding box is calculated and used to
> align the objects on it. The same algorithm is used for left, right and
> bottom alignment.
> For middle alignment the reference line is in the middle of the selections
> bounding box.
>>
>> is there any way to do this with align middle ?
>
> The "cheating" would involve an extra object, which has to define the top
> and bottom of the overall bounding box. And it would have to be already
> middle aligned with the object you want to have fixed.
>
>> Can we "lock" an objet to forbid all move ? like an anchor ?
>>
> Locking an object would need some special marking within a selection and I
> can't think of a good (i.e. obvious) user interface reflection of that.
>
> One way which could allow the user to influence the reference position for
> alignment would be the order of selecting objects, e.g. we could define the
> very first selected object wont move. But I think that behaviour would be
> less obvious or understandable than the current behaviour.
>
> Reagrds,
>        Hans
>
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