On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, bulia byak wrote:
- When copying an object, the copied object is put at exactly the same
position as the original. Am I the only one who finds it inconvenient? I frequently need to have several copies of the same object in different places my drawings, and selecting one of the two objects which are literally on top of each other is awkward, especially if the objects are small. I'd much prefer that "paste" creates a floating object, which follows mouse cursor, and you click to show where to put it. What do the usability experts say about such an idea?
Actually you CAN move a pasted or duplicated object with arrow keys, because it's selected. Press ctrl-d and then arrows, it's very convenient imho. But I plan to change the paste command so it by default pastes in the center of the visible canvas, and a variant of this command (e.g. with shift or alt) pastes to where the object was copied from.
Another approach that might be useful would be a "cookie cutter" mode, where each mouseclick pastes a copy of the object to the click location. This could be useful for maps and diagrams, where you will be using a lot of symbols or repeated shapes.
Bryce