Hi ed, so some of those things are going to be improved at some point in v3.

For example I'm planning on having a menu that will pop out when you click on an object name in the Objects section, and it will have some other actions available on it, one of which will be "Assign to this name" which will make it easier to assign selected objects to have that particular name.

In the meantime there is a plug-in that you can set up which will help with that, you can get it from this message here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3830.4

Unzip the attachment there and copy the files into your \commands sub-folder inside of MoI's main installation folder. That will then make a new command called AssignName which you can set up on a shortcut key.

The command pops up a dialog that lists all existing object names and then you can double click on to assign that picked name to the current selection.


I don't know about making an "active name" - one big difference between styles and names is that having a name is optional, it is totally normal for an object to have no name assigned to it. That's not the case with Styles - every object always has a style assigned to it.


- Michael