Yes I checked the first attempt to answer my question. The out side of the shape always snaps by the corner.
Resizing the object so that it aligns with other items that are snapping to the grid seems kinda, I don't know...odd. I resize objects so that they fit into the diagram. I think of 'Snap To Grid' as just that. I appreciate that patches are excepted and I would provide them if I knew how. How about this, is there a way to add the alignment features available in the properties of the text fields to the shape properties? There it is possible to have the text align to the left, center or right (text alignment) and top, center or bottom plus first line (vertical text alignment) and that works great. Kind Regards, Jon -----Original Message----- From: Hans Breuer [mailto:h...@breuer.org] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:18 PM To: discussions about usage and development of dia Cc: Jon Oesterheld Subject: Re: Sanpping objects to grid by middle instead of corner At 11.08.2010 22:53, Jon Oesterheld wrote: > I'm having a problem when I have 'Snap to Grid' turned on. The object > always snaps to the grid with the upper left corner node(?). Is there a > way to make it snap to a side or middle node(?)? > Did you notice the first attempt to answer your question? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2010-August/msg00023.html To have more grid aligned objects I usually don't only move the objects where they are indeed snapping to the object's position (usually the upper left corner). I also resize the object to be more grid aligned. > Some objects have a line coming out from the middle of one or more sides > (see the 'Horizontal Relay'). If I resize the object these lines won't > necessarily line up with the grid. Yes, but that's up to you. > When I then insert a 'line' or > 'zigzag line' it snaps to the grid but doesn't align with the lines on > the side of the object. Yes you can 'connect' the line to the objects > node(?0 but there is always a slight jump in the line. > That might be a problem with the center point being a bit off center. IIRC they were added just doing bounding box calcualtions, not visual checks. Patches accepted. Hans -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
