This may well be the first of a number of questions about using items in a canvas.
I want to build an application that has a canvas on to which different rectangular items are
placed next to each other. The rectangular items will consist of lines and widgets.
The canvas group item (Mastering Perl/Tk page 212) seems to be a good way of creating the rectangular items.
Is this correct?
I want to have a ‘menu’ outside the canvas that allows me to select an item, get the item
on the cursor and place it so that it touches the nearest existing item on the canvas
when I use the mouse button.
Can any monk gives me some clues about how this can be done or perhaps point me
in the direction of an existing Perl example that does something akin to what I want?

In reply to Slecting and placing 'groups' on a TK canvas by merrymonk

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