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 From:  Michael Gibson
10652.78 In reply to 10652.77 
Hi MindSet,

re:
> Might Groups be thought of as "Saved Selection Sets"?

No, that's not the intent for them. They are intended to function as an "Object that contains child
objects inside of it" and they are trying to have the same behavior as in a 2D vector editing program
like Affinity Designer or Adobe Illustrator.

Something that functions more with a "Saved Selection Sets" type goal will need to be a separate
function from Groups. My current thought is that might happen with "Folders" in the Scene Browser.


> Can objects exist in more than one Group?

No that's not allowed, same as how it's not allowed in a 2D vector drawing program.


> Might we sort & index objects by their relative position?

Sorry I don't know what this means, I need more details.


> Might it have a method (or some means) to iterate the selection of individual
> constituent objects?

You can in script code, groups have an .objects property that is a list of the
child objects that it owns.


> My concept of a "current group" is that everything else would be locked.

You can lock everything else if you want but there is not anything set up that then gives the
unlocked remaining group any special significance.

Thanks,
- Michael