Allow arbitrary positioning of ports on component exteriors

[philip-alldredge]

Issue by smithdtyler
Monday Oct 02, 2017 at 21:29 GMT
Originally opened as osate/osate-ge#226

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When I select an incoming or outgoing port on a component, the GUI allows me to "move" the port by clicking and dragging, but only certain locations are "legal". I cannot determine what the rules are for which positions are legal and which are not, nor do I understand why positioning is limited at all.

The screenshots below highlight a series of legal and illegal port positions. I do not understand why some are legal and some are not.

[philip-alldredge]

Comment by philip-alldredge
Tuesday Oct 03, 2017 at 13:49 GMT

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I believe the problem is that when the shape is slightly out of the bounding box for the shape, it starts attempting to move the port outside of the container. This is invalid. Unfortunately, I don't believe Graphiti exposes a way to override that behavior like it does for selection.

[philip-alldredge]

Comment by philip-alldredge
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018 at 19:05 GMT

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Recommend waiting until migration to GEF5.

[philip-alldredge]

This will be fixed as part of #1183. Labels should not prevent moving a feature and the effects of moving the feature will be shown while the dragging occurs.

[philip-alldredge]

Fixed by dbefc8b