Move, Resize and Edit

You may interactively edit the shape of any graphic with the on screen handles. The "Handles" are the small colored boxes that appear when the graphic is selected. In most cases these are colored an orange shade of brown, but other colors are used to indicate different uses and actions for the handles.

You may interactively move any graphic with a simple click and drag when the default arrow tool is active.

The graphic must first be selected, usually with a simple mouse click, to enable the move or edit action.

Arrow keys found on most full size keyboards nudge graphics in horizontal or vertical direction.

All possible interactive editing and moving actions may be performed in a precise numerical fashion with the Graphic Details Inspector.

A graphic is moved interactively by first selecting the graphic with a click of the mouse cursor. A "Selected" graphic is indicated with small rectangular color handles. A selected graphic is moved with a click and drag motion of the mouse cursor. Lift the mouse when the desired position is attained.

A graphic is edited or changed interactively by first selecting the graphic with a click of the mouse cursor. Each indicated handle provides control to edit the shape of the graphic. Click down on the handle and drag to move the control point to a new location. The shape of the graphic will evolve to follow the control point as it is moved.

The action "Option Drag" will duplicate a graphic before it is moved. This is a convenient method for creating a duplicate of a graphic that is present on the drawing. Select the graphic, then hold down the Option key and drag the new copy of the graphic to the desired location on the drawing. The new graphic is shown interactively following the cursor to the new position.

A copy of an existing graphic may be placed in a new drawing with the "Drag and Drop" technique. Both the drawing containing the graphic and the destination drawing need to be open and visible on the screen. Select the graphic with a mouse click. Drag the graphic off the source drawing, when you "leave" the drawing the graphic will snap back to the original location on the drawing and an image of the graphic will appear floating over the desktop. Drag this image to the desired position on the destination drawing window and lift the mouse button. A copy of the graphic is placed in the destination drawing.

The Drag and Drop technique is used with other software applications running on macOS. The same steps are used to pull the graphic off the EazyDraw drawing. Move the floating image of the graphic over the destination application window, if the destination application has the capability to accept the graphic a "Plus" indicator should appear next to the cursor. When moving between applications, the graphic is converted to a common graphic interchange format. Actually several formats are provided by EazyDraw so that the best possible representation is used by the other application. These formats are arranged by the Copy Paste Order setting on the EazyDraw preferences panel.

The degree of editing allowed for a graphic is controlled by the Interactive setting chosen on the interaction menu. This setting will determine the number of resize and editing handles provided for the graphic. This is often used to constrain a graphic to uniform resizing. This mode provides only two resize handles, these are used to set the size of the graphic while holding all proportions constant.

Bezier curves have control handles at each vertex and two additional control handles for each segment of the curve. These are referred to as the Bezier control points. The controls at the vertices define the points that the curve passes through. The editing handles at the Control points are used to define the shape of the Bezier path, in particular they define the slope of the curve at the end points of the segment. Study Edit Bezier Curves for more information on this topic.