Re: Changing properties of several objects at once??

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 00:29 -0700, elwood151 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried out Dia and I like it very much, however there is a problem which
> troubles my workflow...
>
> I would like to change the properties (line style, color, arrow size and
> style, ...) of several objects at the same time.
>
> If I select 3 lines and then hit Alt-Return for the properties dialog and
> change the line color, it affects only the first object of the selection..
>
> This is a major problem imho, because the user can't change the "corporate"
> style of a drawing easily. :-(
>
> Is there a way to obtain that result in Dia that I overlooked?
> If not, could this be implemented in future versions?

You're not overlooking anything, at least not up to 0.96.  Current SVN
has work in progress on making multi-object property changes, albeit so
far only for grouped objects (which unfortunately has side effects in
turn).

-Lars