Issue 1044 - align objects relative to the object that was selected first
Summary: align objects relative to the object that was selected first
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Draw
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: 627
Hardware: All Other OS
: P4 Trivial with 18 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa, rfe_eval_ok, usability
: 20730 53872 (view as issue list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2001-06-15 12:42 UTC by issues@www
Modified: 2013-09-12 00:42 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description issues@www 2001-06-15 12:42:49 UTC 
Hi, one small change that would make life easier. Currently the way you do 
alignment all the objects are aligned to the average middle or outer most 
object. It would be better to align to the first selected object. This is the 
Visio does it. So for example if I have three rectangles for which I want them 
all vertically aligned to the second, I would first select the second 
rectangle, then select the rest. Instead of moving to the average center the 
would move to the center of the second rectangle because it was selected first. 
Visio provides a visual cue for this by having the first object selected have a 
diffent selection color for the phamtom line.

thanks
-Sep
Comment 1 bettina.haberer 2001-06-18 10:01:34 UTC 
Good suggestion, goes as enhancement to the productmanagement.
Comment 2 falko.tesch 2001-07-02 08:02:11 UTC 
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Comment 3 Unknown 2001-11-08 22:38:51 UTC 
changing QA contact from bugs@ to issues@
Comment 4 falko.tesch 2002-02-22 14:01:07 UTC 
Idea accepted:
Allow aligning multiple objects relativ to a selected one.
Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-10-15 14:24:45 UTC 
Allow aligning multiple objects relativ to a selected one.
Comment 6 gebu 2004-02-03 16:29:21 UTC 
relativ to the first selected one
Comment 7 t8m 2004-02-15 00:30:40 UTC 
*** Issue 20730 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 t8m 2004-02-15 00:34:36 UTC 
Please consider this enhancement for OOo 2.0. It would really enhanced usability
of the Draw functionality.
Comment 9 bettina.haberer 2005-02-03 08:59:58 UTC 
Yes, this issue will be considered for the next milestone. Set the flags,
reassigned to owner 'requirements'.
Comment 10 lohmaier 2005-02-03 20:05:41 UTC 
-> adjusted summary (Why do people always forget to set a summarizing summary?)
Comment 11 Regina Henschel 2005-08-28 22:22:13 UTC 
*** Issue 53872 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 12 arossevans 2006-05-04 23:50:31 UTC 
Any chance this is going to happen in the not-too-distant future?
It would make Draw much easier to use for complicated technical drawings.

I know you can protect one object's position, align, and then unprotect
position, but that's cumbersome when you're doing a whole bunch of "align"s. 

Thanks,
-Arthur
Comment 13 Demián Gutierrez 2013-09-12 00:42:01 UTC 
This would be very useful. In my case it's the kind of feature that would make Draw 200% more usable :-)