Feature question, only current layer visible
Howdy,
I would like Inkscape to show only contents of the active (selected?) layer, other layers would not be visible.
Is it currently (svn) possible to achieve this?
Thanks, Kent
Kent Tenney wrote:
I would like Inkscape to show only contents of the active (selected?) layer, other layers would not be visible.
Is it currently (svn) possible to achieve this?
I don't think so, one solution would be to hide all other layers but the active one. However as Inkscape is scriptable you could develop a quick script to automate it.
Kent Tenney wrote:
I would like Inkscape to show only contents of the active (selected?) layer, other layers would not be visible.
Someone just needs to implement Alt+click on a layer in Layer dialog to hide all other layers. That's how it's done in Photoshop so it will be a familiar shortcut for most users.
bulia byak wrote:
Someone just needs to implement Alt+click on a layer in Layer dialog to hide all other layers. That's how it's done in Photoshop so it will be a familiar shortcut for most users.
Perhaps we can do better if we steal from another genre. Audio applications often have a "solo" and "mute" button for tracks. I don't use the feature often so I'm not exactly sure how it works. But if I were to wager a guess the mute button works like our current hide buttons do, dissabling a single track/layer. And the solo button overrides this hide preference without disturbing it, causing only the solo track/layer to be seen/heard. Only a single solo can be checked at a time. This might allow greater flexibility. Just a thought.
Aaron
On 9/25/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
Someone just needs to implement Alt+click on a layer in Layer dialog to hide all other layers. That's how it's done in Photoshop so it will be a familiar shortcut for most users.
Perhaps we can do better if we steal from another genre. Audio applications often have a "solo" and "mute" button for tracks. I don't use the feature often so I'm not exactly sure how it works. But if I were to wager a guess the mute button works like our current hide buttons do, dissabling a single track/layer. And the solo button overrides this hide preference without disturbing it, causing only the solo track/layer to be seen/heard. Only a single solo can be checked at a time. This might allow greater flexibility. Just a thought.
+1, that's how I envisioned it, a "Layer visibility" setting which toggled between normal and current only.
Thanks, Kent
Aaron
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:04:35 -0400, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
Someone just needs to implement Alt+click on a layer in Layer dialog to hide all other layers. That's how it's done in Photoshop so it will be a familiar shortcut for most users.
+1; this sounds like a good way to do it.
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