[Drawkit] Selection behavior with groups

[Uli Kusterer]

On 05.08.2008, at 02:36, Graham Cox wrote:
> So you could modify that to detect a multiple selection and to treat  
> any knob hits as body hits instead. Maybe also factor in the zoom  
> scale and/or object size so that at larger scales the usual  
> behaviour is kept the same. Another option would be to change the  
> DKKnob scaling ratio and knob size so that the knobs are smaller at  
> the scales you are working at so they are less likely to get in the  
> way. You could also implement your own selection/move tool that  
> ignored knob hits altogether (so you'd have separate tools for  
> moving objects and editing them). You could also try grouping the  
> objects and moving the group - that ignores all knobs for objects  
> within the group (this is more of a workaround than a real solution).


  What I've seen in some drawing apps is that, if you select several  
objects, they don't show the knobs anymore. In general, the whole  
selected set gets only eight knobs around the smallest enclosing  
rectangle. That would solve the issue, too, though it makes it kind of  
hard to see which of a series of small objects close to each other are  
already selected, and which aren't. Just thought I'd provide this as  
an additional data point.

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