3.6 Moving Shapes

 You can reposition the following things in a diagram:

•   A node shape. You can move a node shape by positioning the mouse into that node shape and then drag it with button-1. The shape does not need to be selected. A grey node outline moves along with the mouse. The mouse pointer turns into a .If you release button-1 then this node shape is redrawn at the new position and all its adjacent lines are redrawn too.
•   The selection. If you drag one of the selected node shapes, all other selected shapes are moved with over the same distance, including the line handles of the selected edges.
•   Intermediate line handle. You cannot move the line as a whole, but you can drag the individual handles of a line. When a line is selected and the mouse is in one of the handles (which is indicated by a ), then you can drag this handle and a grey outline of the new line follows the mouse. You can move the intermediate handles of a line to an arbitrary place in the drawing area.
•   End line handle. When you drag and release one of the end point handles into the connected node or somewhere in the background, then the end point will be placed at the border of the connected node at a position that is the closest to the place where the handle was released. However, when you drag the handle into a different node then the edge will be redirected  to that node. The result is that the edge now connects to a different node .
•   The label of an edge. You can move the label of an edge by dragging it with button-1. The edge need not be selected. You cannot move the label of a node; when you move or resize a node, the label positions inside the node are recalculated, as well as the labels of the adjacent edges.

   

• The Align command in the Edit menu has six variants as you can see in the Align submenu of the Edit menu. The alignment takes place according to the position and size of the first selected shape, which should be a node shape. Depending on the chosen alignment type, the rest of the nodes in the selection will be aligned to the first shape, either horizontally (Same center y-coordinates), vertically (Same center x-coordinates), to the top (Same top y-coordinates), to the bottom (same bottom y-coordinates), to the left (Same left x-coordinates) or to the right (Same right x-coordinates).

When you want to abort a move command, while you are moving, you have to click button-2.