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tmAlign3 would be awesome #23

Open macMikey opened 5 years ago

macMikey commented 5 years ago

If anybody remembers Scott's TMAlign3, it is my go-to tool when I'm trying to fuss with a layout. It would be neat do get that functionality into navigator. Screenshot of some of the options attached.

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gcanyon commented 5 years ago

This seems like a good idea.

Some of this functionality is built-in to the Size/Location Editor, which is available on the Properties Menu and through the command bars, but I'm pretty sure I could do a better job of exposing it.

Selecting "Align" on the popup menu makes it so that adjusting the left, right, top, bottom, or horizontal or vertical position, aligns the objects to the last selected object -- "Bob 4" in this case.

Selecting "Match" on the popup menu makes it so that adjusting the left or right equalizes the widths, and adjusting the top or bottom equalizes the heights.

Navigator doesn't have anything like Distribute or Contact, although the Command option makes it fairly easy to do those things, and with significantly greater control/options, obviously.

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gcanyon commented 5 years ago

7.3 adds alignment/conformity controls. No distribution controls yet.