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Would be nice when moving interface objects like buttons and fields to have them constrained to x or Y axis to maintain them aligned, as in Photoshop when you press and hold shift key.

Hi Mag,

if you select an object and then use the arrow keys you move the object 1 pixel on each press. However if you hold down the shift key while pressing an arrow key objects move 10 pixel. That should be enough to move an object rapidly where you want it. You may even select more than 1 object.
Can Photoshop do this?

Kind regards
Bernd

Hi Bern, thank you for the tip, I often do in this way (also in Photoshop). The situation when this feature could be very useful is when you want to duplicate an object by Option-drag it: currently you lost the new object's alignment.

LC's pointer tool can be influenced by a global grid property, with a settable grid size. This is adjustable in Prefs. When activated, movements snap to the specified grip increment, making it really easy to resize and move objects with nice alignment. I tend to leave mine set to a grid size of 4, which is fine enough to support nearly any layout I want yet large enough to make a good difference in ease of creating the layout.

Hi Richard, could be very useful, I saw the menu item in the menu, but I can't understand as to activate it.

Mag wrote:Hi Richard, could be very useful, I saw the menu item in the menu, but I can't understand as to activate it.

The View->Grid item toggles the global property "grid". In Preferences, in the section for Appearance, you can set the grid size.

OH, great, now I see. The default value is 2, so it was hard to see the effect! I try with 6.