Selection issues: on selectedobjectchanged

Jim Ault JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 3 11:36:29 EST 2008


Why not try the approach that when the user 'selects' the internal group,
you are actually creating a 'cover slip' transparent object that is moved,
and the internal objects are just moved to match?

You could have the rule that the x,y has to remain inside the group rect or
other geometric area.

I don't know how you would try to handle the 'looks selected' issue,
however.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 3/3/08 8:27 AM, "David Bovill" <david at openpartnership.net> wrote:

> I want a user to be able to select a group inside a group and move it around
> / resize it. I used to do this with mousedown handlers, but want to change
> to using the normal selection stuff that the IDE uses, so I have replaced
> much of the old functionality by trapping for the "on selectedobjectchanged"
> message.
> 
> Not exactly a bug but an issue with how you can use this event to select a
> group to be moved around. The problem I have is that having used a script to
> select the group - I find that the user can drag the group around as
> expected. Doing so outside of the group with another script works fine, but
> doing so within the group (with an "on selectedobjectchanged" handler for
> instance), results in the originally targeted object not being able to be
> used for dragging.
> 
> What I need to be able to do is the same thing as if the user typed "select
> group 1" from the message box, yu dont gt the same effect from within a "on
> selectedobjectchanged" handler in the group. I am not sure what to do - is
> it a focus issue? What is going on to make this difference. In both cases
> the group looks selected, but in the externally scripted case the behaviour
> is different.
> 
> I've created a test stack for this issue as it is a little difficult to
> explain - type this into the message box
> 
> go to stack url "
>> http://handlers.rev-co.de/attachment/wiki/selectedObjectChanged/selectedobjec
>> tchanged.rev?format=raw
>> "
> 
> 
> I'm documenting this on the wiki here:
> http://handlers.rev-co.de/wiki/selectedObjectChanged
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