Tell me about it 😉

Good point, I will try to keep this in mind 🙂

Ah – right. The original intention was:
option/alt when picking everything except a text-field and
option-alt when hitting enter to close a text field.

But on Windows the alt key would do random stuff. So we made control key do the same thing.

I just experimented with this, and the functionality is there, albeit a bit different than using ALT (on windows).

When multiple objects are selected, you can indeed hold the ALT key and click on things like the ‘Locked’ or ‘Hidden’ sections, and all items will change.

But you actually need to use the CTRL key to make changes to things like the visibility or heading of multiple items. Even then, using those two (important) items as examples, the functionality of the CTRL key is different – if changing the visibility, you have to hold down CTRL first and then click the dropdown and the desired setting. But to change the heading on multiple items, you enter the heading on one item, and the use CTRL+ENTER to save that heading entry to all selected items.

That said, I’m sooooo glad you pointed me in the right direction. It’s tricky, and I’m not sure I would of ever found that functionality on my own, but man…. I’m one happy camper now! Thanks Ben!

Awww – it’s a shame – I have already burnt into my brain a parser for taxiway sign codes!

But it looks nice. What I would *really* like to see is designers using the taxiway signs for customized distance remaining signs – a feature mostly ignored, for some reason. Easy to do – check them out at KSEA. If you all do this, don’t forget to switch ‘off’ the auto-generated signs on the runway data.

All WED properties can be bulk edited by making a multiple selection and then option-changing or alt-changing one item – the entire selection is affected.

Are there any plans to add more ‘group’ editing functionality? Although you have the ability to select multiple items in WED and do such things as move or delete or duplicate, I feel that there could be more that might improve quality of life for WED users.

An extremely useful example would be to to be able to define the ‘Show with’ property for a selected group of objects. Right now, if one doesn’t think ahead, it becomes a very tiresome task to go back through possibly hundreds of objects and set the property one item at a time. (I strongly feel it’s a responsible authoring practice to care about it!)

Another useful group editing feature might be to rotate the texture heading on a selected group of ground polys, or to set a heading on a group of objects.

Nice job! Coding taxi signs was always a royal pain, and this will certainly make it better for all those WED users out there.