On Do, 2004-11-18 at 13:07 +0100, Gazal, Geraud (GE Healthcare) wrote:

What I find confusing is being able to select with Ctrl+Click or Rubberband... In fact, I thought the lock (or sensitive) state of a layer would be applied ( not necessarely propagated) to all the objects it contains.

Ehm, you're totally right, this really annoyed me, working with locked layer today, that all of the sudden I had the element selected and moved. Now since my doc is slow to render it kinda pissed me off.

I'm not a graphics professional, I only try to draw basic maps as a hobby. I can easily understand that my needs don't match those of the majority. Layers are really useful for me, but the fact the the object they contain can be selected even when locked confuses me a lot. Let me explain : let's say I've got a reference layer with reference lines, and some bitmaps, and additional layers with text, buildings, water, streets... When working on a specific layer, i want to see the others but not modify anything in them. At the moment it's not ok (at least for me), as rubberband selection (my favourite one btw) can select ( and then modify) them.

now, if you can't modify them, you don't need the lock at all, since you can't accidently switch to them... I think you should be able to modify, unless they are locked. Maybe also ctrl should select items, but I had the feeling that there is something else allowing it. If not so, ctrl shouldn't :)

A workaround is to lock objects individually, but then, unlocking them one by one from the xml editor is a pain...

Yup, not quite, what you wanna do

David