Re: very irritative problem

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 23 Jul 2003, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:08, Lars Clausen wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I'm sorry about the previous mail - I got it work finally.
>
> Basically it was a set of lines (not of zero length) grouped together.
> Selecting the group and then clicking *within* the group (rather than on
> one of reference points) allows me to move the object (ie group'ed
> points)
>
> I had the idea that if I clicked on one of the reference squares after
> selecting the group I would be able to move the object.

I see.  No, the references squares really have little purpose other than to
show where the group is.  That is in fact less than intuitive.

-Lars

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