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Please implement this. I have so many instances where I need to select same object for changes and the locked objects are selected as well. I don't want the locked objects to be affected.

Hi Affinity team,
Thank you for the excellent work you have put into this version. In my opinion, it has began to pull away from the competition, especially in the workflows it allows. It is so versatile! 😃

I really love the way "Select Hidden Objects" works. So I am asking for the feature that makes objects that are locked to be optionally not selectable using the "Select Same ..." menu. 

Think of an elaborate pattern that that some similar objects with the same colour fill or stroke are locked in a geometric fashion and you would like to change the colours of those that are not. It currently not possible.

Hi Affinity team,
Thank you for the excellent work you have put into this version. In my opinion, it has began to pull away from the competition, especially in the workflows it allows. It is so versatile! 😃

I really love the way "Select Hidden Objects" works. So I am asking for the feature that makes objects that are locked to be optionally not selectable using the "Select Same ..." menu. 

Think of an elaborate pattern that that some similar objects with the same colour fill or stroke are locked in a geometric fashion and you would like to change the colours of those that are not. It currently not possible.

Hi Affinity team,
Thank you for the excellent work you have put into this version. In my opinion, it has began to pull away from the competition, especially in the workflows it allows. It is so versatile! 😃

I really love the way "Select Hidden Objects" works. So I am asking for the feature that makes objects that are locked to be optionally not selectable using the "Select Same ..." menu. 

Think of an elaborate pattern that that some similar objects with the same colour fill or stroke are locked in a geometric fashion and you would like to change the colours of those that are not. It currently not possible.

First of all, I don't see anywhere that they said they will never support them, just that they don't support them right now.
Secondly, that panel, as the Affinity team has pointed out a few times, is added by the MacOS - it is not something they seem to be able to control.
Thirdly, if you do use that panel, it does in fact "type" the characters into a text box or other location.  Some of the symbols in the panel do work.
The issue seems to be that they panel "types" the characters using a color font, and the Affinity apps do not support color fonts (nor is this limitation unique to these apps - others have trouble with it also).  If you have a "traditional" font that displays those characters, selecting the "unsupported" text and changing the font of the selection to the more traditional one does allow those characters to display; I have tested this in the Affinity apps and it does work.
Getting color fonts of the format that Apple is using for these emoji characters to work in the Affinity apps would very likely resolve this issue, and open up other potential use cases.  Personally, I would rather have SVG color font support in the Affinity apps, but given the noise on the whole emoji topic, getting the Apple-formatted ones to work would certainly not be unwelcome either.
 
Color font support would definitely be a nice feature to have implemented and I would certainly hope support for these is somewhere on the drawing board:
https://www.planetquark.com/2018/02/24/color-fonts/

How so?
Most fonts fall into one of two categories: either they are bitmap fonts (common at one time, now somewhat rare) having bitmap/raster images of each letter, or outline fonts, which are in effect vector images (similar to pen tool) of the letters, along with some extra metadata about when to use each one, etc.  PostScript Type 3 fonts contain PostScript code that "draws" the glyphs, and SVG fonts are basically collections of SVG images, again along with the metadata.
The fonts do contain more than just the pictures of the letters, but in the end, they are pictures (or programs to produce pictures) of the letters in some form or another... with the possible exception of metafonts, but that is a whole other ball game, and I have yet to see support for those in the Affinity products (or most other major "modern" applications for that matter).
What we think of as "picture" fonts (dingbats, emoji, etc.) simply have those pictures as glyphs instead of what we think of as letters/text, but they "draw" them the same way that text would be created by that same type of font.

@MEB
 
Thank you and the team for the hard work you are putting in. I noticed that a lot of time is going into the iPad suite of Affinity apps. It is good for marketing and getting a larger market to be sustainable. I understand that. However, having started using Illustrator at 5, I find that I really miss this feature. As a graphic designer who does renderings in 2D for buildings, infographics and multiple Web and mobile UI designs, I find that with some object oriented thinking and symbols, I can deal with "select the same ____". But if I get a graphic design where the designer didn't think like me, then I am in trouble. I have to do a tedious "select and group", breaking the design work in the process.

Is there a work-around way to "select the same ____" that you might know of and share as we wait for this feature.
 
Please add this feature request to the Common Feature Requests. I think we will bother you less on this forum thread. I did not find it.

@MEB
 
Thank you and the team for the hard work you are putting in. I noticed that a lot of time is going into the iPad suite of Affinity apps. It is good for marketing and getting a larger market to be sustainable. I understand that. However, having started using Illustrator at 5, I find that I really miss this feature. As a graphic designer who does renderings in 2D for buildings, infographics and multiple Web and mobile UI designs, I find that with some object oriented thinking and symbols, I can deal with "select the same ____". But if I get a graphic design where the designer didn't think like me, then I am in trouble. I have to do a tedious "select and group", breaking the design work in the process.

Is there a work-around way to "select the same ____" that you might know of and share as we wait for this feature.
 
Please add this feature request to the Common Feature Requests. I think we will bother you less on this forum thread. I did not find it.

@MEB
 
Thank you and the team for the hard work you are putting in. I noticed that a lot of time is going into the iPad suite of Affinity apps. It is good for marketing and getting a larger market to be sustainable. I understand that. However, having started using Illustrator at 5, I find that I really miss this feature. As a graphic designer who does renderings in 2D for buildings, infographics and multiple Web and mobile UI designs, I find that with some object oriented thinking and symbols, I can deal with "select the same ____". But if I get a graphic design where the designer didn't think like me, then I am in trouble. I have to do a tedious "select and group", breaking the design work in the process.

Is there a work-around way to "select the same ____" that you might know of and share as we wait for this feature.
 
Please add this feature request to the Common Feature Requests. I think we will bother you less on this forum thread. I did not find it.