Nudging shapes

[David Kasprzyk]

Dear Mr. Kaufman:

Thank you for all of your bug report and suggestions in regards to 
OmniGraffle.  It's not very often when I update mail to not have a 
message from you, which is simply impressive.  I'm very glad that you 
were impressed enough with our product to decide to register and I hope 
you continue to enjoy using it.

Since you've sent in so many different issues, I'll respond to each of 
them in turn below:

> When you nudge a shape past the edges of a window, it doesn't scroll 
> the window as it should.  The shape keeps going, but the window view 
> doesn't follow it.

I verified this problem and sent it on to our programmers.  I agree that 
the window should scroll with the shape.

> In the newest beta, if you change the ruler to picas, the size panel 
> shows zero for x and y sized.  The other ruler options show correct 
> sizes

Verified the problem, but in my case every field with a measurement read 
'0 pc'.  Is anyone else also experiencing this?

> Please add to the wish list a "fit page width" and "fit page" options 
> to the zoom menu so you can quickly zoom to those levels.  As the 
> non-programmer said to his programmer friend, "shouldn't be too hard".

Suggestion filed in our database.

> I notice that when typing text in a new text box, you can use 
> option-return to get a new line.  The box expands for the new line, but 
> the  text itself doesn't show up until you finish typing.  So after the 
> first line, you are typing "blind".

Hmm, well I couldn't get this issue to appear on my machines.  Can you 
send in a .graffle file that you have this problem in?

> It's great the way info, palettes and selection are shown and hidden 
> with the toolbar buttons.  Why now extend that behavior to the other 
> panels as well, i.e. colors and fonts?

Suggestion filed in our database.

> Heavy wish: Please make attractions optional.  I find now I am almost 
> always drawing my lines with the option key down so I can get my lines 
> to end where I want and not where the program attracts them to.  It's 
> uncomfortable to have to keep your finger on the option key all the 
> time!

There are several ways that you can do this right now.  If you lock 
either the shapes or if you put all the shapes in one layer and lock the 
layer while your drawing lines, the shapes won't be selected.

> I notice that info pane windows don't behave the same as other graffle 
> windows.  Since I use Windowshade X I was hoping I could collapse the 
> info pane and keep several open at once in a compact way.  Is it 
> possible to redefine the type of window the info pane uses?

I sent this on to our programmers to be looked at.  I'm not sure what 
makes the Info window respond differently than the others, so hopefully 
they can find the reason.

> Suggestion:  Now you can toggle an Info Viewer with the Info tool on 
> the toolbar.  However if you have more than one Info Viewer, only the 
> first or original one toggles with the tool.  It might be better if all 
> open info viewers toggled together.

I sent this to our programmers as well.  I agree that this should toggle 
all of the active Info windows.

> May I suggest a new tool which in other programs is a "hand" with which 
> you can drag the page within the current window?  Then you can navigate 
> to sections of your document without scroll arrows.

Suggestion filed in our database.

> Why not have the info pane automatically track your selections?  For 
> instance if I select a line, then the info pane should switch to line, 
> if I select a shape, it should switch to shape, etc.

Suggestion filed in our database.

> Magnets are a great idea, but for what I do they aren't useful if I 
> can't precisely place them in relation to the grid.  Perhaps you could 
> option-click-drag a magnet and it would snap to the grid?  Or some 
> better idea that you think of.

I sent this idea along as I think this would be a good functionality.  
However, I'm not sure about the implementation so I'll have to talk with 
Kevin.

> Could you make it so that "Align edges (or centers) to Grid" can be set 
> as a preference?  That way you wouldn't have to set it for each 
> movement every time, but it would be a global default.  Of course you 
> could change it as needed.  As you know by now, I'm usually looking to 
> have it as a default to Align to Centers.

There have been several requests for this, and I think it will be 
something we may look into.

> Also, just to point out that the arrow on the right of the toolbar in 
> the info pane currently (2.0 beta) doesn't contain all the info panes.

In order to get the new panes into the toolbar, simply control-click on 
the toolbar and select 'Customize Toolbar...'.  Then drag the new panes 
onto the toolbar and they will be added.

I hope this answers any of the questions you may have had, and please 
continue to send in your bugs, comments and questions so we may continue 
to help you.

Sincerely,

David Kasprzyk
support at omnigroup.com

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