Re: gEDA-user: Stupid newbie question

[Mario Klebsch <mario@klebsch.de>]

Hi!

Am 21.05.2004 um 22:03 schrieb Dave McGuire:

>   This is an interesting idea.  I seem to remember some general 
> drawing package years ago (Micrografx Designer, maybe?) which, when 
> drawing a line, would force it to perfectly vertical or horizontal if 
> you dragged the second endpoint while holding down one of the modifier 
> keys.
This was a general rule on the Macintosh. They used shift as the 
modifier and called it contraint, because it constrained the mouse 
moves to 8 possible directions (0°, 45°, 90°, ...). I am sure to have 
seen this in windows programs, too.

73, Mario
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Mario Klebsch                                           mario@klebsch.de
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