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Title: Keyboard Combination to place an object on another object without any nesting
Post by: rvelter on May 18, 2021, 16:58:36 PM
Hi,

Is there a way to place an object on another without any nesting (no relations and no shape "truncating") ?

Best regards
Title: Re: Keyboard Combination to place an object on another object without any nesting
Post by: Phil Beauvoir on May 18, 2021, 17:09:18 PM
There's no particular key combination, but if you are trying to place an object in front of another this might help:

https://forum.archimatetool.com/index.php?topic=993.0
Title: Re: Keyboard Combination to place an object on another object without any nesting
Post by: rvelter on May 18, 2021, 17:42:59 PM
Thanks for the answer.

Unfortunately, i have a big container between the two object so "in the middle of the two objects" means that it is nested in another (the big one). That tips doesn't help.

I'll try to move/place the objects by jscript.
Title: Re: Keyboard Combination to place an object on another object without any nesting
Post by: Phil Beauvoir on May 18, 2021, 18:00:46 PM
I'm able to place one object on top of another by overlapping and then resizing the edges as required.
Title: Re: Keyboard Combination to place an object on another object without any nesting
Post by: Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie on May 18, 2021, 18:58:09 PM
Hi,

@Phil: I do agree that it is possible to achieve it by resizing an object, but having a way to disable nesting by pressing a key while moving an object would be helpful in some occasions. Don't know if that's possible at all though.

Regards,

JB
Title: Re: Keyboard Combination to place an object on another object without any nesting
Post by: Phil Beauvoir on May 18, 2021, 19:19:49 PM
@JB - all of the functionality of containers and child objects is deep inside GEF and its Edit Policies. Not easy to figure out. :-)
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