Swap arrangment of two selected objects - designer

[2046]

Hello,

 

With what I frequently fighting are two objects whose position I want to swap.

 

Like say I need the text under this object or vice versa. 

Now I have to find them in layer and drag them where I want them but if you have dozen layers it is totally clumsy. 
The short cut up and down or or top or bottom movement is not of big help either.

 

If we will be able to select the objects and from menu or via shortcut call "swap layer position" it would safe me/us hours...

 

[lelumpolelum]

this feature would be very helpful for me too !!!!! 

[xman]

Forgot I needed this until I went to use it. I hope this is added at some point.

[dominik]

On 27.6.2016 at 11:53 AM, 2046 said:

Like say I need the text under this object or vice versa. 

 

Hello @2046,

 

welcome to the forum.

 

What I describe is not a perfect solution but it will do what you are asking for in certain situations with a couple of mouseclicks

1. Place an image and type some text underneath it.
2. Select both.
3. Hit the 'Flip vertical' button on the toolbar (same as menu 'Layer > Transform > Flip vertical' but this would be too many mouse clicks)
   Result: positions are swapped but everything is upside down.
4. Next select only one of the objects and hit 'Flip vertical' again.
5. Repeat with the other object.
   Result: both objects swapped their positions.

 

This does work only for vertical and horizontal swaps. But it works right now 

 

Cheers,

d.

 

 

[Alfred]

31 minutes ago, dominik said:

This does work only for vertical and horizontal swaps. But it works right now 

 

A couple of weeks ago I posted a more general workaround.

[dominik]

22 minutes ago, Alfred said:

 

A couple of weeks ago I posted a more general workaround.

 

Hi @Alfred,

 

I didn't see your post when you posted it. Your method seems to overcome the limitation to horizontal and vertical swaps. Nice 

d.

[dutchshader]

i thought the question was about the position in the layers panel,

in that case you could select one object CTRL>X select the other object and paste in front or behind

[Alfred]

15 minutes ago, dutchshader said:

i thought the question was about the position in the layers panel

 

I think you’re right! I had only read @dominik’s reply, so I hadn’t seen the OP’s reference to "swap layer position".

[dominik]

12 hours ago, dutchshader said:

i thought the question was about the position in the layers panel,

in that case you could select one object CTRL>X select the other object and paste in front or behind

 

Thanks @dutchshader for pointing to this 'interpretation' of the OP's question.

I was thinking about that, too, but just could not believe that this was the question 

 

After all, this is be possible to do. There's the command set 'Layer > Arrange' that moves objects (= layers) back and forth (or better up and down). This then also applies to the layers panel even without locating the objects there.

 

There are also keyboard shortcuts associated with these commands: CTRL+[ , CTRL+] .

 

Cheers,

d.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, dominik said:

There are also keyboard shortcuts associated with these commands: CTRL+[ , CTRL+] .

 

The OP seems to be unimpressed.

 

On 27/06/2016 at 10:53 AM, 2046 said:

The short cut up and down or or top or bottom movement is not of big help either.

 

[dominik]

20 minutes ago, Alfred said:

 

The OP seems to be unimpressed.

 

 

 

Well, what can I say else 

 

Let's see, if he (the OP) comes back.

 

d.