Re: very irritative problem

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 23 Jul 2003, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using dia 0.9.1 under RH9. I;m facing a very irritating problem
> and I dont know whether I'm missing something or this is a bug.
>
> Say I draw a 4 by 4 grid using lines and then select all the points into
> one group. Now selecting all the points and doing Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V
> gives me a copy of my grid on the sheet.

So these are zero-length lines making a grid?  Joined in a group?

> But now when I go to move the copy of the grid, I get the four headed
> arrow but it does not move the grid. In the end I have unselect the
> second grid, reselect it and then *sometimes* it will move. This becomes
> more of a problem when the second grid overlaps the first since then
> selecting the second grid results in some points of the first grid being
> selected and then it all ends up in a mess.

Can't reproduce this at all.  Do you have Snap to Grid turned on with a
really big grid?  Sounds silly, but it's the only thing I can think of that
matches your description.  Does this happen with other kinds of objects
ever?  

-Lars

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