Dear friend,
newbie here.
We have locked some objects (some rectangular shapes) on the page, in order to work on the page without accidentally modifying the objects.
How do you unlock them when you need?
Thanks in advance.
Corrado
it's not very nice as far as I can see, the only way to do it is as follows:
from the menu, you need to go into "Inkscape Preferences/Selecting" and uncheck "ignore locked objects".
that way you can select it.
Then on the menu, go to "object/object properties" and uncheck "lock"
there ought to be a better way i think.
spiff
seml@...1451... wrote:
Dear friend,
newbie here.
We have locked some objects (some rectangular shapes) on the page, in order to work on the page without accidentally modifying the objects.
How do you unlock them when you need?
Thanks in advance.
Corrado
On Jan 3, 2006, at 11:57 AM, spiff wrote:
from the menu, you need to go into "Inkscape Preferences/Selecting" and uncheck "ignore locked objects".
that way you can select it.
Then on the menu, go to "object/object properties" and uncheck "lock"
there ought to be a better way i think.
The other main way I can think of is to go to the Edit menu and bring up the XML Editor window. Then you can go down through its tree and select the object there. Once it is selected, either bring up the object properties dialog to uncheck the lock, or (for the brave of heart) just edit the XML directly.
seml@...1451... wrote:
Dear friend,
newbie here.
We have locked some objects (some rectangular shapes) on the page, in order to work on the page without accidentally modifying the objects.
The answer has been already given. The meta-advice is to not lock objects individually, but organize you work into layers, and lock the layers.
At 21.57 03/01/2006, you wrote:
from the menu, you need to go into "Inkscape Preferences/Selecting" and uncheck "ignore locked objects".
ok, I found it
that way you can select it.
sorry, I can't
Then on the menu, go to "object/object properties" and uncheck "lock"
I'm still using Inkscape ver. 0.42+0.43pre1 (Oct 26 2005) and to me this last option is dimmed. Why I can't unlock objects via the ordinary gui ?
Imho the easyest way to unlock an object is to open the file with a text-editor and delete the line with the param. < sodipodi:insensitive="true" >.
R.
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