Feature request for the layers panel - reverse order of selection

[Bit Arts]

It's so typical of me to create a lot of elements and then realize I've done it in the wrong order. It would be really useful to be able to reverse the order with an "Invert order of selection".

Of course, this is not a function that should be in the right-click menu, but in the layers menu.

Just a suggestion 🙂

[walt.farrell]

Just to let you know, you can do that already using a trick.

Suppose you start with this, for example:

 

You can select the 3 layers, Group them, then use Layer > Arrange > Move Outside (Designer, Publisher) or Arrange > Move Outside (Photo) and you'll end up with this:

Then you can simply delete the empty Group.

[Bit Arts]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Just to let you know, you can do that already using a trick.

Suppose you start with this, for example

You can select the 3 layers, Group them, then use Layer > Arrange > Move Outside (Designer, Publisher) or Arrange > Move Outside (Photo) and you'll end up with this:

Then you can simply delete the empty Group.

Ah, yes, I actually have that trick on my list to report as a bug because it's a real issue. I can almost taste how the programmer has worked with elements in a list here - but incorrectly.

Because:

• 'Move outside' reverses the order of the selected. (bug)
• 'Move inside' keeps the order.

So if I'm interested in moving items out of a group with this menu choice, the items are inadvertently turned upside down, which is disastrous if the order is relevant, and it usually is.

But thanks for the tip anyway. :)

[thomaso]

8 hours ago, Bitarts said:

Ah, yes, I actually have that trick on my list to report as a bug because it's a real issue.

Please note that you can also move the selected objects above their Group layer within the Layers panel. If the selected objects are spread over many other layers in the group, it helps to select "Move to front" first (or click that Toolbar button) before selecting "Move to outside". – Should this bug/function be fixed without also newly implementing the requested feature, the current option to reverse the order of the selected layers would no longer be available.