RE: how to draw a moving cable?

["Ed" <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Kevin-

Are you asking for a run-time application that will redraw the cables when
users plug them in to the various items? Using straight Illustrator, I don't
know of any way to do this. 

If I'm understanding you correctly, the [magic] is Flash. You could
theoretically draw your computer, peripherals, and cables in Illustrator,
import into Flash, then use ActionScript to animate or redraw the cables
based on user input. I don't think that's any small feat, however. 

Hope this helps, 
-=Ed.

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> All,
> 
> Is this possible in Illustrator?
> 
> Imagine drawing a computer and several peripheral items,
> like monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, USB cup-warmer...
> 
> Draw curvy lines between the proper points (ports) on
> each device to the proper place on the computer, representing
> the connection cables.
> 
> [Do magic here]
> 
> Drag any of the devices or the computer on your page,
> and any connecting lines (cables) redraw themselves
> so that they remain connected to the computer port
> and to the device.
> 
> This - if it existed - would be the grown-up version
> of drawing action and decision boxes in a flow-charting
> program, then dragging the boxes around and the connections
> remain connected (the lines being re-drawn/re-routed
> automatically as needed).
> 
> My sadly limited Google-fu brings up all sorts of references
> to end-points and handles and adding text along a curved path,
> and other stuff, but nothing about what I want... which is a
> way to save my labor when I reposition cable-connected
> elements in an illustration.
> 
> Not a big deal, just "wouldn't it be handy if...?"
> 
> Most likely it doesn't exist, but quite possibly I
> merely need to think in different keywords. Hm?  Hm?
> 
> 
>  - Kevin
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