Anchor points - A point of origin

It would be real slick to have a nine point anchor point (point of origin)
for the scale, translate, and rotate of multiviews, like many professional
graphics programs have that support these sort of transformations.

For those of you that may not know what I am referring to, simply put,
it can be very frustrating to futz around with multiview scaling
and positioning... you make it bigger, then it may no longer be
aligned where you want it. Align it, then scale it, and it may no
longer be aligned the way you want it. Adding an achor point that
says "I want to position and scale based on the lower left corner"
makes life easy. Or perhaps, you might want to scale, but you want
to zoom in and out from the center. Sweet ey?

This can easily be accomplished using a 9 exclusive checkbox group (only one can be checked at a time) for:

[UpperLeft] [UpperMid] [UpperRight]
[MiddleLeft] [Center] [MiddleRight]
[LowerLeft] [LowerMid] [LowerRight]


And of course, on the programming side, simply concatenate a translation matrix to the indicated anchor spot before applying additional transformations nails it.

This is as easy as pie from a programming standpoint, and provides the expected usefulness of a professional program.

Also, if this turns out not to be "as easy as pie", then it provides a proof that the implementation of the matrix math for controlling multi view transformations is incorrect and needs to be redesigned, so this little addition also makes for a good cross check for any implementation bugs.

I hope you enjoy adding this much needed spit of polish, as I know in advance that the added functionality will truly shine :)

Joe C. Hecht
Code4Sale, LLC

I agree - that's a useful feature which I certainly make use of when it's available in other applications.

+1