On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:26 -0800, Andrew Mellinger wrote:
So let me ask this. What is the purpose of hidden objects? A use case of why someone wants to hide an object should indicate how they want to get it back. If it is so it doesn't print then maybe a non-print attribute is better.
It's actually a survival from before we had layers -- I think the most common use would be to temporarily hide a bitmapped image that you're using for reference when drawing. Nowadays folks just put that stuff on a separate layer and show/hide it that way.
What we really need is an "object tree" dialog similar to the layers dialog which shows you the tree of all objects and lets you hide/unhide/lock them right there. It'd probably be an evolution of the XML dialog, which does already provide an "object tree".
-mental