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Can you change stroke color for many polygons at once?


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I drew a bunch of hexagons in a row. When I select one I get access to its stroke properties, like color. When I select two I can't get access to color anymore. How do I change the stroke color of many polygons selected? See attached screenshots for clarification.

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Switch to the colour panel (on the right) and change the Stroke colour there

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Or, w. the objects selected, change to the fill tool, and change color and fill type there also.

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Its because you have 2 objects selected, if you select an individual Hexagon it will show the stroke and fill options.

You could make a symbol out of a shape and then power duplicate that symbol, you only need to change one instance to change them all.

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Another possibility is, beside those already named above, to make a custom color style and apply that then to all the selected hexagons with one press.

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Yet another way: Set the Tools panel to use 2 or more columns & a color well like the one in the Color Studio panel will be added at the bottom of the Tools panel. Like the one in the  Color Studio panel, double-clicking on a color well will open the Color Chooser window:
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3 hours ago, romanp said:

Affinity is paying attention, changing primary UI based on selection state of the same thing should not change the UI. 

As its name suggests, the content of the Context Toolbar (where Polygon, 2 Objects, etc. appear) changes depending on the current context of the UI -- the persona, the selected tool, the number of select items, etc. Since the context is different with two or more items selected than with a single one, the contents of that toolbar also change. 

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