groups in v5beta

 From:  pressure (PEER)
10815.3 In reply to 10815.2 
Michael,

Thank you for answering my questions. I got Group set up as a shortcut key now and will experiment with this feature to see if I can get the hang of it.

Given that the goal of groups is making a set of objects behave as a single object, how should I think about the difference between groups and names? I can give 2 objects the same name to make them behave as a single object. Is the difference essentially that groups give the ability to create a hierarchy rather than say having 50 points and 2 curves referred to by a single name?

This meaning of Group is similar to that in CorelDraw, but is quite different from how Groups behave in Illustrator. I greatly prefer Groups in Illustrator because in Corel I am constantly having to break groups apart to make edits on individual objects. Though, I initially found the 2 types of selection available in the Illustrator Layers Palette confusing and still sometimes get confused momentarily. It sounds like "folders" will be more like what I want, so I'm looking forward to them.

Speaking of the scene browser, is there a way that I can have objects listed in order of creation (with most recent at the top), rather than alphabetical? Can I manually reorder items in the Objects section of the Scene Browser? In other words, the way that objects are listed in CorelDraw and Illustrator?

- Peer