[Feature Request] Ability to disable centering behavior about circlepacker HOT 5 CLOSED

@snorpey: Thank you for the consideration! No rush on this, but I thought of a possible variant which is slightly more comprehensive.

If it were possible to disable the centering pass on objects but not others, similar to packer.pinCircle(...);, this would give the user even more control.

I think maybe each circle could have flag indicating whether:

• Whether it is pinned (i.e. a pinned object will never move, but can affect other objects)
• Whether it will be centered (default) or whether it will only move when overlapping another object

This would give the app developer a lot of control over the behavior of individual objects. In my 3D printing app, I would definitely be able to use the feature to give the user more control over how to arrange objects.

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So I was able to accomplish what I wanted by changing a single character in the code here and it behaved exactly as I had hoped. It seems to work, but I do not know enough to see whether it may have unintended side effects.

if ( typeof message === 'number' && message >= 0 ) {
   circleManager.numberOfCollisionPasses = message;
}

Not sure whether you consider this use case to be significant enough to include in the mainline code.

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hey @marciot thank you for your interest in this library and for feature suggestion. I think it's a great idea and will take a closer look once I have a bit more time on my hands. I hope this is OK.
thanks again!

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@marciot i just published version 1.1.3. have a look at the setCircleCenterPull() and setCenterPull() methods. let me know if you have any questions. thanks again for your feedback!

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@snorpey: I just added the new library to Symple Slicer and it works great! With the new feature set, I was able to allow the user to select multiple objects to pack to the center. Works great! Thank you for being so responsive!

@marciot i just published version 1.1.3. have a look at the setCircleCenterPull() and setCenterPull() methods. let me know if you have any questions. thanks again for your feedback!

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