Maximilian Albert-2 wrote:

Hi,

as a kind of test for some other things I have in mind I added better support for editing guides by mouse. You will notice that the anchor point of guides is now displayed on canvas as a small dot. You can still move guides as you used to, but now you can also rotate them around the anchor as well as move the anchor along the guide. What I'm not really happy with, though, is the way in which the various functionalities are accessed. So I'd like your help in this respect. Currently it works as follows:

1. dragging the anchor moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it)
2. pressing Shift and dragging the anchor moves it along the guide

(while the guide itself stays in place) 3) dragging the guide anywhere outside the anchor rotates it around the anchor 4) pressing Shift and dragging the guide outside the anchor bypasses rotation and moves the whole guide (as in 1.)

Does this make sense to you? Do you have better suggestions as to which functionality should be accessed in which way/with which modifier?

Thanks for your feedback, Max

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These are my suggestions:

1) "normal"-selecting and dragging moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it); 2) shift-selecting the guide (in any place along it) moves the guide as in 1) but placing the anchor under the pointer, so you can snap it and place it wherever you want; 3) alt-selecting the guide outside the anchor rotates the guide around it (with ctrl fixed angles snapping); 4) alt-selecting the guide on the anchor moves it along the guide; 5) ctrl-clicking the guide, deletes it.

Point 1) is intended to preserve the usual behavior.

Point 2) is intended to make it easier to grab the anchor: guides are so "thin" for selecting that having also to get the little circle (not zoomable...) is a pain. And what about if some guides have their anchor all snapped to the same point? How could you select the one you want?

Point 3) is for the great feature of rotating guides (with snapping!). Ctrl should be pressed after initiating the rotation, to distinguish from point 5) (deletion): if you start rotating a guide it means you don't want do delete it, don't you?

Point 4) is not so essential to me, but could be useful and maybe not so difficoult to implement.

Point 5) is the current behavior and should be kept as is.

Tanks for all the improvements.