Hi Max,

> Honestly I don't see many other options, having a checkmark as with styles sounds very
> simple to me. Maybe this feature could be activated with a .ini option, so that by default it's off.

Unfortunately it's not very practical for me to implement pieces with significant UI to them which are off by default, it becomes too likely later on down the road that there will be bugs in those areas when other things are changed, it becomes difficult for me to remember to test such things.

I'm not entirely against things that are activated with an .ini option but in general such things work better as a modification of existing behavior instead of being a major new feature themselves (like something that introduces its own UI is).

- Michael

You could implement that when you set a filter to a group name (by holding CTRL), new objects created automatically get the same name.
What about it? It sounds good to me for now. Please? :))
Regards,
Max.

Hi Max,

> You could implement that when you set a filter to a group name (by holding CTRL),
> new objects created automatically get the same name.

Sounds kind of weird, I don't see how anybody would really expect for a selection filter to also change the name on newly drawn objects.

It's problematic to implement something that adds unexpected behavior like that.

In the V4 time frame when I'm working on more group functionality I'll see then if I can figure out any better method for doing what you want.

- Michael

What about no special UI, currently clicking on the name makes nothing. Maybe you can click the name and it gets highlighted and thats it. I know you plan to add special functions when you click on an object's name but in the meantime, this simple click and highlight can be an optional behavior that you can toggle on the .ini, having it turned off by default. It can be the left or the right click.

Hi ed,

> I know you plan to add special functions when you click on an object's name but in the meantime, this
> simple click and highlight can be an optional behavior that you can toggle on the .ini

This kind of thing tends to be problematic - what ends up happening is someone gets used to the "temporary" behavior and then it causes a problem when the final changes are implemented that changes the behavior.

I tend to try to avoid that type of thing, I'd rather wait to implement something until I can do it in what I hope is more of its finished form.

- Michael