Scenario: You have some object in a drawing involving multiple connectors; the object has one connector on each one side of its containing rectangle (or wherever), and it ends up that you need to connect to other objects to it - from about the same direction. What happens now: Both connectors connect at the same spot. You can't tell them to space themselves out a bit. What I'd like: A mechanism for me to be able to say: "Instead of one connection point I need 2, or 3, or 5 - with a short or larger space in-between, centered on the corrent position of the connection point", e.g. ------X------ will become -----X--X----- or ----X-X-X---- it would also be nice to be able to "fold the connection points back" if they're not needed; and to control the spacing. But that's extra.
You know, that you can set your own glue points? See section "Gluepoints" in chapter 8 of the DrawGuide and topics "Using Gluepoints" and "Gluepoints Bar" in the help.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #1) > You know, that you can set your own glue points? Yes, I know that. Let me clarify that I want automation: I don't want to have to leave what I'm doing right now, go to the gluepoints bar, start measuring distances carefully from both sides, making sure I'm right on the rim of the shapes etc. I want LO to do that for me.
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0) > A mechanism for me to be able to say: "Instead of one > connection point I need 2, or 3, or 5... I can follow the use case but not the envisioned solution. Sounds to me like a lot AI to replace a simple manual click.
On second thought, I filed bug 163506 which is about the problem; this is just one potential solution. > I can follow the use case but not the envisioned solution. Sounds to me like > a lot AI to replace a simple manual click. Not a simple manual click, but multiple clicks, which need precision measurement, which will necessarily fail for shapes that are not well-aligned to the grid in position and size. And repeat these clicks for many shapes.
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #4) > On second thought, I filed bug 163506 which is about the problem... So it's a duplicate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 163506 ***