Optionally snap to grid in composition canvas

Feature Requests
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1

To help lay out nodes more neatly, provide the option to snap to a grid drawn on the composition canvas.

  • Render horizontal and vertical major grid lines on the canvas.
    • major grid lines about 2 cm apart at default zoom level
  • Add a menu item to enable/disable snapping to minor grid lines when placing nodes on the canvas.
    • minor grid lines about 1/2 cm apart at default zoom level (vertical distance between ports on a node)
    • only affects nodes placed after enabling snap-to-grid; does not rearrange existing composition
  • Add a menu item to enable/disable rendering horizontal and vertical major grid lines on the canvas.
2

This request was estimated at 12 credits, but Team Vuo has pledged six up front.

3

Personally feel this should be secondary to the more pressing issues of sub compositions … as a means of helping to layout nodes.

4

Work in progress.

5

In Vuo 1.1, we added the ability to snap to grid, and the ability to show grid lines.