[Drawkit] Changing margins does not shift drawing objects

[Dick Applebaum]

Hi Graham,

Yes, reading your reply to Brad, I understand the logic-- especially  
with the grid, the shapes and dimension lines.

However, I was surprised by the results when I resized a drawing in  
the DrawDemo.

I expected everything to scale: the rulers, the grid, the shapes and  
dimension lines-- and I'm not sure why?  It says Drawing Size... but  
it is under the View menu

I am going to play around with some other programs (Pages, Photoshop,  
Canvas, etc.) to see if they surprise me too.

I've been learning/using FCS a lot recently & maybe I need to unlearn  
some things.

Let me get back to you.

Dick


On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Graham Cox wrote:

> Hi Dick,
>
> Layers can't be included in groups, as they are not subclasses of  
> DKDrawableObject. In hindsight that might have been a good way to do  
> things but it would be a big change to make now.
>
> Your method outline could still work within each layer though, but  
> the transform approach is probably cleaner. As I mentioned, it might  
> be best to provide a method to do the work but leave the usage up to  
> the app.
>
> cheers, Graham
>
>
> On 9 Jul 2008, at 7:32 am, Dick Applebaum wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this will help (or even if it is possible) but,  
>> from a logical standpoint couldn't you programatically:
>>
>> 1) group all the objects together including the document layer as  
>> just another object
>> 2) convert this to a shape
>> 3) resize the shape as desired
>> 4) convert back to a group object
>> 5) ungroup
>>
>> Again , I don't know if DrawKit permits manipulation of the  
>> document layer in this way... if not, you could create a background  
>> object that serves as a document layer & manipulate is as above.
>
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