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More Editing Features

The applet's drawing editor supports some of the features commonly found in drawing editors including the following:
  1. Multiple objects can be selected at one time by shift clicking.
  2. Dragging a rectangle while in select mode selects all objects inside the rectangle.
  3. The up, down, right, and left keys move a selected object.
Try using a selection rectangle to delete the tree from the following document:
(Remember to put the applet in select mode first.)

(Note: the Java 1.02 applet below does not have the editing features required for this demonstration.)
 
Remember that the editor is still simple and many common feature are not yet implemented.  For example, notice that when multiple objects are selected, it is possible to move the group of objects, but not resize it.  Undo is not yet supported, so edit with care.

Fortunately copy and paste are supported, and these will be covered next...