Group conundrum?

[Jim Ault]

Another big CAVEAT...
Be sure to right-click and refresh the Application Browser to be accurate.
or write a quick loop to report the layer numbers.

Layer numbers are not the same if you are changing modes....
 1     in edit mode (pointer tool) with select grouped ON
-- do refresh
 2     in edit mode (pointer tool) with select grouped OFF
               + editing the group
-- do refresh, and the layer numbers change... they only include the group
layers.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas



On 9/17/08 8:51 PM, "Jim Ault" <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think the logic is that moving a group to a layer under an item says that
> it will consider that item to be the new parent.
> 
> On 9/17/08 8:12 PM, "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 1          group "food"
>> 2              group "meat"
>> 3                 button "chicken"
>> 4                 button "beef"
>> 5              group "fruit"
>> 6                 button "apple"
>> 7                 button "orange"
>> 8              button "fred"
> 
> 
> A couple years ago I did something like
> 
> 1          group "food"
> 2             button "spacer1"  --invisible
> 3              group "meat"
> 4                 button "chicken"
> 5                 button "beef"
> 6             button "spacer2"  --invisible
> 7              group "fruit"
> 8                 button "apple"
> 9                 button "orange"
> 10             button "spacer3"  --invisible
> 11             button "fred"
> 
> and moved the groups to a
> layer (layer of btn spacer2 + 1)
> layer (layer of btn spacer3 + 1)
> etc, to avoid the re-parenting that seemed to be counter-intuitive.
> 
> Try it and see if this helps get you where you want to go quickly.
> Instead of spacer2, you could call it 'gridline2'
> 
> Adding another level of hierarchy might mean
> spacer1, spacer11, spacer21, spacer33, etc. sorta like a matrix notation.
> 
> layer (layer of btn spacer21 + 1)
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 
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