Re: Change properties of several objets at once

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Hubert Tonneau wrote:

> What anybody would expect for changing the properties (let's say the
> ground color) of serveral objets would be to select all the objects, then
> get the properties dialog through the double clic, make changes, press
> 'apply' button and get changes applied to all selected objects at once.
> 
> Yeah, but nearly no, including dia, drawing software is working that way.
> Really sad.  Ok, it may be non trivial if the selected objects are not
> all the same kind, but if they are, is it so hard to implement ?

Ah, we are so almost standard as to be painful.  If you, after selecting
the objects, turn them into a group, you can indeed set properties for all
objects.  I tend to agree that that's what should happen for multiple
selections as well.

HTH.  HAND.
-Lars

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