Draw tool: add grid functionality

[HanVroon]

Hi Pierre (and Helmut, as extensive Draw tool beta tester )

My girlfriend is in a process of creating 50 cards with photos, and for every card a word must be added in all four corners.
I pointed her to the new Draw tool and she is trying to work with that. We don't use other photo editing software.
Because she wants the text to always have the same colour, she puts the text boxes on a rectangle with lower opacity so hat the text is always clearly vissible.

The chalenge:
Because rectangles have to be sized by dragging, it is very difficult to get all the rectangles at the same hight.
Especially because the x/y cursor position is not shown like in the classic version (would be nice to have too!!!).

The wish:
It would be very nice to be able to enable a grid funtion in the Draw tool.
In the same way as the grid function in View mode, so with all the setings as in menu View, Grid settings.
In such a way one is able to position rectangles and so precisely, by setting the spacing so that boxes will always be (for example) five lines high.

Would that be a good idea?
Best regards,
Han

[helmut]

A grid is a good suggestion for a future XnView version, HanVroon.

A simple and also helpful support might be displaying current cursor position and the width/height of shapes (rectangle, circle, line) when drawing them.

[HanVroon]

Correct, when starting drawing a rectangle, put the cursor on x=10 and y=10, and then when dragging, showing the coordinates of the opposite corner would help.
And then, later, the grid

Regards,
Han

[HanVroon]

Hi Pierre,

Is it possible to show the mouse coordinates in Draw?
Like in XnView Classic's Paint?

In a way that the coordinates are always visible when - for example - drawing a rectangle?

Regards,
Han