Group entity

 From:  Michael Gibson
1347.11 In reply to 1347.10 
Hi Jonah, you mean that switch would control how MoI behaves for regular selection clicks?

That might work, but for stuff like groups, it would probably feel more natural for the group to select as a whole without going into a special mode to do it...

There will probably be some kind of panel that you can open that will list all the objects and any "tags" that you have created to act as selection set / layers / groups. So for things like layer-type operations you would open that panel and use some of the controls in it for hiding or showing things, etc.. For a group you would set a property on a tag for "select as one". For selection sets, there would be some way to select objects or tags by clicking on either the name or some button next to the name in the panel.

One thing (along with many) that I haven't figured out yet is if the panel should be an additional thing that opens up adjacent to the current side pane (and can be easily opened/closed), or whether to make the current side pane switchable to different views and have this "object/tags view" be one of the options, or whether to try and make it small enough to be an actual smaller section of the side pane like one of the current toolbars.

- Michael