Yes, this can become a bit of a challenge to say the least.
Especially if you are also trying to get certain objects in some
groups to be at the top of the group.
Does anyone else wish there were another "group-layer" editing
strategy in Rev? as we have in photoshop? Imagine a palette which
only shows groups. the default "layer" being the ungrouped objects
on the "bottom" of the card. Groups appear as layers in this palette,
and you could turn them on and off move them up and down by
dragging. if you have a group selected in this palette, all object of
all groups and as well as the ungrouped objects of the "default"
layer, show on screen, but effectively you are editing only objects
in that group and all other objects in other groups are
unselectable, but visible. yet, you could take a selected object and
drag it from one group to another. And the object changes groups.
The Adobe model for this is close to perfect. I don't know if this is
one of those things that could be easily translated into the Rev
core...of if advance Rev usages of groups has some other constraint
that makes such a model unfit, or if it would be some kind of
major re-engineering effort. I'm not sure I understand how having
groups inside of groups is even useful, true it is possible, but
what if every group were completely independent... would we lose
something? I suppose the ability to place several groups all at
once, by placing a single group has some utility? this whole area
definitely needs a new paradigm or at least a pair of nickels... some
kind of upgrade.
On Mar 11, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
It seem like Rev is still got problems with groups inside
groups...anyone else seen this?
I've been trying to make design elements out of little line
segments, and that requires making groups of groups sometimes to
make them movable and usable.
But it's like walking on eggs. Rev gets confused as to what group
is what, groups are hard to select, and twice in my case while
trying to group it did something horrible to the stack - it made a
tabbed button beneath it invisible - like the object shows up in
the inspectors, but .... isn't there, isn't offscreen... it's just
not visible and no property change will bring it back. Revert.
I think this is a bug and it seems to corrupt the stack.
I guess the rule is -- don't go more than 2 level deep with groups
in groups. And as far as graphics go - if I have to work with small
pieces, I think I'll do it in Appleworks or MacDraft and assemble
the artwork there in front of an image of where they'll go... I've
spent hours with this...
It would also be nice if there was some way to know what level of
grouping one is in... as well as some way of grouping line elements
so that they become a new graphic object. Or how about 'locking'
groups so the elements stays together in the group.
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