Hi Eric
Just a question – How is Edit > Special select supposed to work?
In a drawing with rectangles, ovals, polygons and lines both as separate objects differently coloured, and grouped:
If I select Some > Group: nothing selects
If I select Some > Group > Pen color Red: nothing selects
If I select Some > Group, Line > Pen colour Blue: just the blue line selects
If I select Some > Group, Line, Oval, Polygon, Rectangle > Pen colour Red: all the groups select, regardless of pen colour, plus the red oval.
I can't for example select one single group of red objects, or indeed all groups of red objets. Nor can I select any grouped objects, unless I specify what they are made of (lines, rectangles etc), in which case it also selects non-grouped lines, rectangles etc.
Here is the simple drawing I used to see if I could work out how it works:
Special select
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Re: Special select
Bonjour George and thank you,
Yes it is a bug, again...
That has worked in previous versions but I don't know when this has been broken.
And I don't know if I can finish this version if you find a new bug every time I correct the previous one.
Yes it is a bug, again...
That has worked in previous versions but I don't know when this has been broken.
And I don't know if I can finish this version if you find a new bug every time I correct the previous one.
Eric Pousse
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Re: Special select
Hi Eric
It seems to be almost perfect now and behaving as it should! One teeny little thing ... groups still can't select by colour – if you select Group, then it selects all grouped objects regardless of colour. Maybe that's too complicated and/or not a good idea anyway, as groups could contain many different colours, so that would make life somewhat difficult.
I've been in England for six weeks helping a friend fix up an old cottage, so not much design work has been going on until last week – traveling back to the States today and won't be back home until Wednesday evening. So now might be the time to call the new version finished!!
Thanks as ever – the program is great
George
It seems to be almost perfect now and behaving as it should! One teeny little thing ... groups still can't select by colour – if you select Group, then it selects all grouped objects regardless of colour. Maybe that's too complicated and/or not a good idea anyway, as groups could contain many different colours, so that would make life somewhat difficult.
I've been in England for six weeks helping a friend fix up an old cottage, so not much design work has been going on until last week – traveling back to the States today and won't be back home until Wednesday evening. So now might be the time to call the new version finished!!
Thanks as ever – the program is great
George
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Re: Special select
Thank you George !
Yes, for group, other options don't work because they can have different kinds of objects and it is too complicated.
So, I will release the version 4.40...
Yes, for group, other options don't work because they can have different kinds of objects and it is too complicated.
So, I will release the version 4.40...
Eric Pousse
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Re: Special select
Hi Eric
Yes release it quickly – I'm back home!!
Seriously though – it's a pretty damn good product now.
Cheers - George
Yes release it quickly – I'm back home!!
Seriously though – it's a pretty damn good product now.
Cheers - George