Improvement: Usability - creating areas

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what browser/operating system?

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It would have been more natural if the process for drawing an area is:

1. Press
2. Drag
3. Release

Right now you have to press, release, drag, press to create the area
This concept is difficult for beginners

I guess ;)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by thomasan...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2008 at 12:24

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Your guess is right, but due to the nature of web browsers this is harder to 
achieve.
(By default with press/drag/release you will move the image for example, not to
mention the cross-browser event handling apocalypse). But i will take a look 
how hard
it is exactly.

Original comment by adam.mas...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2008 at 9:56

• Changed state: Accepted

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What if the image is a CSS - background image? It may not solve the 
cross-browser
stuff though. 
Anyway this is a great plug-in and we would like to buy a license when the 
product is
ready.

Original comment by thomasan...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2008 at 6:45

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Yep, could be a background image, but still i would need a same-sized div to be 
able
to scroll when the image is larger than the container box. I think we can stick 
with
the foreground image and investigate how the desktop behavior could be 
implemented.

Original comment by adam.mas...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2008 at 11:08

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When creating many areas close to one another, canvases tend to overlap. This 
makes
it hard to click and define points for a shape. Is there anyway to prevent this 
from
happening? At the moment, I am resorting to moving shapes out of the way, 
defining a
new shape, then moving everything back to their original positions.

Original comment by john.at....@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2009 at 1:02

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for this last comment see issue #22

Original comment by adam.mas...@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:24