Anybody please?
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@letsgofishing,
I've noticed the same thing. If you select a repeating object, it isn't highlighted in the P&L gallery. You have to open the repeating group, and voilą, it shows as selected. This is definitely a bad change that Xara made, because you have to search through all the repeating groups to try to find it. This is something Xara should definitely fix for the next update.
Are you saying that with the Locate button active, a selection does not show in the P&LG?
Using the Locate button means when any selection (almost) is highlighted, the Layer(s) expands and the object(s) are highlighted.
Nothing happens in Page mode.
What Xara definitely has failed with is are the following:
- Text Line, Column Area - switching from any Tool to the Text tool and the object's focus vanishes.
- Smart Tables - nothing works for the components within the table whatsoever, though the table itself shows as selected.
Acorn
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Sorry, I’ll give a little more detail. I’m not sure, but I assume it is also what @letsgofishing is referring to.
If you have the P&L gallery open and the page and the layer expanded, selecting an object on the work area will highlight the object in the gallery list. You can easily see where it is in order to drag it toward the front or back, and it is particularly useful if you want to select several items. Once you make the object repeating, it shows as a repeating group. If you expand the repeating group, you see the object on the page as a part of that group. Previously, if you selected an object on the work area, the repeating group would be highlighted. However, in WDP 17, it is not. You actually have to find and expand the right repeating group to see that it is highlighted. (I don’t know if it was like that for v16, but it was not in earlier versions). The problem is that by default the repeating groups are not expanded, so you have to search through them (and expand them individually) to find the one you want. Consequently, it is much more cumbersome to select repeating objects from the work area and manipulate them in the gallery.
Maybe XDP didn’t change, but WDP did.
Thanks if you have any input.
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