Hi,
Using the Object Manager is a pain!
I wish to click on and item and immediately it will zoom to that object and group it then I want to rename the object.
Please implement this on the present upgrade for X7.
Thanks
KuttyJoe said:A part of me wants to blurt out that it seems really, really bad practice to be selecting objects in the object manager like that. But CorelDraw is not the only program to be set up this way. I would like to know, what is the reason someone would select objects in this way, rather than selecting them directly in the document? Using the object manager in this way seems much, much harder and more time consuming when I can just select the object where my eyes are directly focused. Can someone please tell me why that method is better than directly selecting the object. Maybe I will learn something useful and start using it myself if it's actually better.
i feel the same when you select an object and wxpand automatilcally the whole branch. The, I prefer to select objects directly on the screen, but sometimes is better to use hte Object Manager for this, because sometimes there's a "hidden" object, sometimes as part of one group, and if you select each object using the Tab key is not easy to see it.
Ariel said:I prefer to select objects directly on the screen, but sometimes is better to use the Object Manager...
Could it be that those who use the object manager for selecting objects are illustrator converts. I have never understood why anyone would put every object on a different layer. You can still arrange objects over each other even if they're all on Layer 1. And btw when you click an object it tells you what layer it's on down in the object information area.
Ariel said:sometimes there's a "hidden" object, sometimes as part of one group, and if you select each object using the Tab key is not easy to see it.
This is a situation that I've never experienced. And if I attempt to use the object manager where you see a little generic shape it would seem to be really time consuming and difficult to find the generic shape in the object manager that matches something in the art. If that were the best way of doing it, I would never use that software. It's too slow.
CorelDraw allows you, via key modifier to select the objects below other objects, and also to lock objects. If we are using these options very well, then it will be faster I think than going into object manager, and looking back and forth from the art to the object manager trying to find an object.
In Adobe software there are all these key commands and key modifiers that allow you to move very fast through the art. In later versions of Adobe software, Adobe began to add features for people who are actually mousing around and not taking advantage of key commands and modifiers. I thought it was strange but I understood later. I thought, why would I use any of these new things that require me to use the mouse when I'm already doing it much faster with key commands and modifiers. But for people new to the software, the mouse is how they're doing everything. I think the expanding object manager is this kind of feature. For people who are mousing around. They are unfortunately working much slower than they could be working if they actually learned to use all the key commands and modifiers built into the software.