loss of relative spatial positioning when moving multiple floating topics

[xayeko oyen]

i have been using xmind for the last few years .. i have no idea how i
got by before it .. it truly is a remarkable piece of software

sometime last year i upgraded the xmind application from v3.0.2 to
v3.1.1 .. i encountered a change of functionality that was very
upsetting (still appears to happen in 3.2.0):

<issue>
when i attempt to move multiple floating topics at the same time (by
dragging and dropping) they loose their relative spatial positions
(they all pile up on top of eachother)
</issue>

i could almost accept this as a very unfortunate implementation of
multiple item drag and drop .. but this behavior (of loosing
positional information) is not consistent with older versions of the
software

<see also>
this problem is described in further detail in these posts:
http://groups.google.com/group/xmind/browse_thread/thread/03a72134142f97c9/b36d805ea3ba3ab0?lnk=raot#b36d805ea3ba3ab0
http://groups.google.com/group/xmind/browse_thread/thread/f48974a535aa6588
(the second post provides images depicting the loss of positional
information when the allow overlaps feature is disabled)

this problem is also in the issue tracker (issue 157):
http://code.google.com/p/xmind3/issues/detail?id=157
</see also>

i use xmind to model some fairly large and complex datasets .. this
generates maps where sometimes i need to move hundreds of floating
topics at a time (where the precision of relative position is
essential) .. what took a few minutes in older versions (and most of
that was selecting all of the nodes) now can take up to an hour
(sometimes more)

because of this issue .. i am compelled to use an older version of
xmind and would like very much to be able to update to something more
recent

[stephen zhu]

XMind Team should take this into consideration seriously. :(

Sincerely!

Stephen
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