HyperSnapping

  • Authors:
  • Toshiyuki Masui

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • HCC '01 Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We introduce a new drawing technique called Hyper-Snapping.In many drawing editors, various operationsare provided for object alignment, and snapping is one ofthe most frequently used techniques, with which users cansnap the mouse cursor or dragged objects to existing objectsor square grids. HyperSnapping is an extension tosnapping operations, where users can control the behaviorof snapping grids and the constraints between objects onlyby dragging objects, without explicitly changing drawingmodes. With HyperSnapping, simple constraints and drawingmacros can easily be constructed and used for furtherediting without explicit end-user programming.