Re: Bug 60331 ï Object properties should handle multiple objects

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 21.11.2008 10:11, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> On 11/20/08, Lars RÃder Clausen <lars raeder dk> wrote:
>
> > > Yeah. Basically newgroup helps a lot of things, including the bug
> > > mentioned here. My dilemma is whether to wait for newgroup to finish,
> > > or just take what I need.
>
> I tried out newgroup. From the look of it, it has nothing to do with
> the multiple selection bug! As far as I could see, the newgroup is a
> very special beast that keeps track of objects within it. What I need
> is just a very very simple collection ... it is ephemeral, since it
> changes every time a mouse-click results in selecting one or more
> objects. The solution for bug 60331 basically amounts to replacing the
> glist of selected objects with proper DiaObject that can be passed
> around.
Why do you want to change this on the object interface level? Wouldn't a 
dedicated "multiple selected objects" properties dialog give you a better 
solution?
Such a dialog could listen to the current diagram selection and extract all 
the required properties to show from this. On apply it would simply iterate 
over all selected properties and call their set_props() method.

Otherwise you would have to constantly rebuild your "virtual group object" 
when the selection changes, wouldn't you?

        Hans

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