On 10/21/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
On 10/21/07, john cliff <john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
Gotta admit that this change confused the heck out of me when I was working with some gradients the other day. The fact that the global opacity slider changes behaviour when a stop is/isnt selected without any discernable indication that its done so is confusing as hell.
Oh come on - why aren't you saying the same about the color controls? They also reflect either object or gradient stop(s) depending on what is selected, and always did. I just changed the opacity to behave the same, for consistency.
But you havent, you've changed it to behave differently. Every where else the alpha for whats being edited, be it fil/stroke, is controlled by the fourth slider of the color bit, and the opacity of the whole object selected is controlled by the master bit. I think the disconnect here in thinking is what the selection is. As far as I would think about it, the selection is still the object with the gradient applied, I'd expect the master opacity to edit the opacity of that, like it does under every other situation.
It also doesnt seem to go back to being what its actually labelled as when you deselect all the stops, it stays saying its semi transparent when as a master opacity value for the object it shouldnt be.
Ah, I think I finally understand what you are referring to here. That inadvertent change in object opacity is just a bug and I'll fix it.
It also doesnt do what I expect if I have multiple stops selected. if I select all the stops, and change the master opacity I would expect the overall opacity to change but the stops relative opacity to remain the same, not them all to go ot the same one.
That's 100% consistent with how you change opacity of multiple objects, and with color controls too. They all, with multiple entities selected, set the same color/opacity on all entities. For a "relative" change as you describe you need a different tool (for example Tweak with zero opacity and only the O channnel enabled).