Re: Property changes for all selected items

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 02 Nov 2001, Owen Densmore wrote:

> Hi; I've just started using Dia and Gawd, its lovely.  I thought
> everyone had forsaken simplicity (simple semantics) and elegance
> (powerful combinations of the simple semantics) for click-o-matic
> "power apps".  Thankyou for Dia!

Glad to hear you like it:)

> OK, after that shameless sucking up, I have a usage question:
> I'd like to change the properties of several objects at one time.
> For example, the change the font for all the selected objects,
> or linewidth, say.  How would I do that?  I've tried selecting
> all boxes for example, and changing the color to "red" via the
> properties menu.  Only one of the objects changes color.
>
> I bet I'm being dumb here, but is there a way to do this?

It's slightly counter-intuitive, but you have to group the objects first.
Then property changes affect them all.

-Lars

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