What is even more useful than a lock/unlock all button, is the zipper effect.
Supposing that all you layers are unlock, you can click the lock for the top layer, and while holding down your mouse button, drag downward over all the locks, until you have locked all the layers you wanted to.
This is a neat trick in the Photoshop/Illustrator dialog, which I'm sure would take some creative programming, but would be terribly useful.
On 6/14/07, heathenx <heathenx@...155...> wrote:
ryan lerch wrote the following on 6/13/2007 8:18 PM:
The other day, i decided to lock an object using the "lock" checkbox in the properties dialog box, and when i wanted to edit this object again, the only way i could find to unlock it was to edit the XML using the XML editor.
This got me thinking, how could an easier way be implented? microUgly and i were throwing around some ideas at http://inkscapeforum.com/ and we thought, why not be able to change these properties of objects in the layers dialog box? anyhoo, the moral to my rambilings is that i did a simple mockup of how this may work: please tell me what you think...
mockup: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/images/Layersmockup.png
cheers,
ryanlerch
i too have had problems unlocking items that i had locked. your mockup makes sense. i could see how this would be helpful.
heathenx
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