The -d option does paint a grid. Bye, Jojo
Marc Sabatella <[email protected]> schrieb: >FWIW, there are a few things already in 2.0 that I think lessen the need >for this feature somewhat, or at least help define the scope of what is >still needed. One of the new things is the Inspector, which allows for >precise adjustment of multiple items at once and allows the position of >any one object to be set to be the same as that of any other object. >Also the "raster" feature accessed from with the Inspector, which >already offers a virtual grid that dragged items snap to (although the >mechanism is rather non-obvious, I'd say). And the constrained drag >(shift or ctrl) that allow items to be dragged along one axis only. >Finally, the fact that styles now apply to existing items, so you can >easily move all dynamics (or whatever) together that way - and the fact >that voltas and hairpins actually have their own style settings for >position, which reduces the need to manually align things at all. > >Taken together, you can pretty easily get much more precise alignment in >a lot of cases than was possible in 1.3. So many of the tasks I could >have imagined an alignment facility needing to handle really shouldn't >be an issue any more. I think the first part of designing any new >alignment feature is figuring out what is still needed - what use case >is not already handled well. No point expending a lot of effort just >duplicating existing functionality. Also figuring out how to leverage >what is already provided. > >For instance, if one decides "snap to grid" is still needed, I would >imagine a simple grid overlay would be trivial to display - just a >matter of drawing lines on the paper. If turning on the raster >automatically displayed this grid, you'd have a working snap-to-grid >function with little effort or disruption to the code. The actual >position of any given element relative to the grid line snapped to might >not be the same as for an element of a different type. But that's an >issue that will haunt *any* automatic alignment facility. > >Marc > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. >Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer >Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. >Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. >http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >_______________________________________________ >Mscore-developer mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mscore-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mscore-developer
