Locking Parts

[uninteressant2026]

Hello,

the feature of locking grouped Parts or Parts at all is very helpful to awoid unwanted changes.
However, it also stopps you from using these components to build something.
You always have to use a copy, but then you have to unlock the copy, so it's again possible to do unwanted changes.
Maybe we can add some second level locking.
With this it should be possible to move and turn the part and group it with other parts, but it's not possible to ungroup the part or change sizes. It also keeps it's name.

Gruß

Ingo

[henmedia]

@uninteressant2026 good idea, Ingo, that second level is in layerling 1.139.0 now. Next to the padlock at the top of the settings there is a shield: Lock shape (also in the right-click menu, or Ctrl+Shift+L). A part with a locked shape still moves, turns, copies and groups with other parts, but its size, its settings and its name stay as they are, and it can't be ungrouped. Copies keep the lock, and so does the part inside a group.

[uninteressant2026]

Thanks for the quick reaction. Unfortunately I'm unable to see this shield.
I've installed Version 1.141, but no shield.

In the right click menu it's available and works, but it also doesn't change the Object-List, no shield.

[henmedia]

@uninteressant2026 thanks, Ingo, and sorry for being unclear: the shield is not in the object list, it sits at the top of the settings panel of the selected part, right beside the padlock. Your right-click lock did work, the list just didn't show it. That was a gap, so the next version shows the shield in the object list too, beside the padlock of every part whose shape is locked, and a click on it unlocks the shape.

[uninteressant2026]

Thanks, I found it. Maybe you can add the shiled the the object-list anyway :-)

Oops, I should read the whole text first...

[henmedia]

@uninteressant2026 good idea, Ingo, and it is in layerling 1.142.0 now: the object list shows the shield next to the padlock of every part with a locked shape, and a click on it unlocks the shape.

[uninteressant2026]

I'm not shure, if the shield in the object list works as expected. The function itself is ok, bute the user-interface is a bit odd.

The shield is shown in the object list, when activated in in the top right of the edit menu. Then you can click it in the object list to deactivate it, but you can't reactivate it in the object-list.

Shield not activated in the edit menu, no shield in the object list

Shield activated in the Edit-menu, shield is visible in object list and can be clicked

I think, there should be room for 5 Menu-items in the object list, but that makes it quite wide. So maybe we need another little unfolding menu?

Another small issue I found with the object list. If you hover with the mouse over the dots to move the entries, there's a small popup that says, that you can move the entries with the arrow-keys. That doesn't work, because the arrow-keys move the selected object, not the entry.
I would just edit the text.

[henmedia]

@uninteressant2026 thanks, Ingo, you are right on both points, and both are fixed now; the fix comes with the next version.

The shield in the object list now works both ways: a click locks the shape and another click unlocks it. To keep the list narrow, the open shield only shows on the selected row and when the mouse is over a row; a locked shape always shows its shield.

The arrow keys on the grip did move the list entry, but the editor also took the key and moved the selected part (or turned the view). Now only the entry moves. Click the grip, then press the up or down arrow key. The tooltip says so now as well.

If you'd like to help layerling grow, a small contribution is always welcome.

[henmedia]

@uninteressant2026 the fix is out in layerling 1.146.1: every row of the object list now has the shield. A locked shape always shows it, the others show the open shield on the selected row and under the mouse, and a click locks or unlocks the shape. The arrow keys on a clicked grip now move only the entry in the list, not the part or the view. Thanks again for spotting both, Ingo!