[Ipe-discuss] Text alignment

[Jan Hlavacek]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 08:43 +0100, Johan Ingvast wrote:
> Otfried Cheong wrote:
> > 
> > Jan Hlavacek wrote:
> > 
> >> Is there a way to set alignment of several pieces of text at the same 
> >> time?  I am working on a figure where I want to have many labels: A, 
> >> B, C, ..., A_1, B_1, ..., and all of them should be center aligned 
> >> both vertically and horizontally.  I can right click on each of them 
> >> and set horizontal alignment, then right click again and set vertical 
> >> alignment, but that takes very long time and is very cumbersome.  Is 
> >> there a better, simpler and faster way to do that? 
> 
> > There are a few other properties where a more convenient way is needed 
> > to modify them for an entire set of objects.  I still need to figure out 
> > what the best UI for this is (without cluttering up the properties 
> > panel).  Text alignment really _should_ be in the properties panel, I 
> > guess, or at least in the menu.
> 
> What is the reason for not having the context sensitive menu affect all 
> selected objects (of the kind where the change is valid)?

I guess you would have to put all the properties that are relevant to
all the selected objects into the menu, so it could be kind of confusing
to click on a path object and get a menu containing things like text
alignment.  If you have such menu, there would really be no reason to
associate it in any way with individual objects.  Maybe there could be
another menu somewhere (menubar?, perhaps called "selection"), which
would contain all changeable properties of all currently selected
objects.  

-- 
Jan Hlavacek (jhlavace at svsu.edu, 989-964-2004)
Department of Mathematics
Saginaw Valley State University