Re: Modifying properties of several objects at the same time

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Daniele Pighin wrote:

> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:24:19 +0200
> From: Daniele Pighin <daniele@dcs.it>
> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Modifying properties of several objects at the same time
>
>
> Hallo guys,

Hello Daniele

> I was wondering whether it was possible to introduce a way to be able to
> modify several objects' properties at the very same time, as it would be very
> useful and time saving, especially for large diagrams.

The method is not so much the problem as someone having the time and
ability to do it.

> I guess this could be done without excessive tweaks to the interface:

My knee jerk reaction is to look at programs like OpenOffice.org Draw,
Microsoft Visio and maybe Adobe Illustrator and see how they do it.

> method 4: on-the-fly: when having several objects selected end editing some
> property in the main application window, change the object state of any
> object for which that change makes sense.

this last one sounds about right

> Is any of these feasable?

You should take a look at this bug report
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113139

> Thanks for your kind attention
>
> Daniele

Sincerely

Alan Horkan