Group Elements blocks quick linker

[Uffe]

Hi all,


If you group some elements in a diagram using the Group Elements function, this disables the quick linker for the group.

And before you say "well it should," no it shouldn't. It's just a lazy way out.

How do I know it shouldn't? Because EA does not prohibit an element group from being the target of a quick linker, neither does it prohibit a connector being drawn from a grouped element using the toolbox.

The other selected-element popups, the appearance and alignment mini-toolbars, still work for grouped elements, although they execute their functions on each element in the group which obviously (yes it's obvious, don't get any silly ideas) the quick linker shouldn't do.

So this is wrong and should be fixed.

Anyone else?


/Uffe

[Eve]

The quicklinker is explicitly hidden for all multiple selections. I can see why you might not want that behavior when you have an item group, but the behavior you're describing has nothing to do with that feature.

Both of the situations you describe where creating a connector is allowed explicitly start/end a drag on a specific element, ignoring selection. That's not the case for the quicklinker.

On the other hand, commands that explicitly operate on multiple selected elements aren't a useful comparison.

[Uffe]

Both of the situations you describe where creating a connector is allowed explicitly start/end a drag on a specific element, ignoring selection. That's not the case for the quicklinker.

Why not?

If a quicklinker icon were shown by each selected element it too would be able to ignore selection: the connector creation would be initiated not by "the" quicklinker but by "a" quicklinker.

My point with the other selected-element popups was that there is clearly no limitation on how many of these popup icons you can show at the same time. So the quicklinker one has been disabled, even though it could be shown and even though the user's intention would be perfectly clear.