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Hi

Has anyone developed a way to allow the viewer to select and drag/drop multiple objects at the same time?

I've been working on a diagram maker which has a drop field into which the viewer clones, drags and drops multiple vector objects. If the viewer, after placing many of these, wishes to move a group, rather than individual item, to another location within the drop field, they have to move each item separately-quite a labor intensive task.

Is there a way to allow the viewer to select/frame multiple items that can then be moved together? Since the items are cloned and placed into the diagram by viewer's choice, there is no way to frame/group them in advance, since their number and grouping is unknown at publication.

I think what I'm looking for is a viewer-operated "select" feature, which may have to be a wishlist item (unless this can be scripted currently).

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Thinking on my feet here....
An implementation would work as follows
Each object selected will be added to an array, with the vitals of x,y location.
The move will correspond to the displacement in either x or y corresponding to the mouse movement, and since this can be captured, you can have a function "fork" the displacement of each objects in the selection for its x or y value.
Will see if it works as well...