GB_Design Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 When "Add Layer" is clicked, make it appear in the hierarchy next to a selected item. Also if multiple items are selected and if "Add Layer" is pressed, automatically put them inside the new layer. Jowday, Tupaia, fde101 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Welcome to the forum. Some interesting ideas there. The default, when placing a new object, is to put the new object above the currently-selected layer. Your first suggestion – if I have understood correctly - is to replicate this behaviour when adding a new ‘empty’ layer. This seems reasonable to me. Always having a new empty layer added to the top of the stack can be awkward sometimes (the Auto-scroll function doesn’t follow it) and, as far as I know, there’s no inherent reason for that behaviour. Your second suggestion sounds quite reasonable also. If you have multiple layers selected then it’s usually because you want to do something with them together, and adding a ‘wrapping’ layer when they are selected – rather than just putting the layer at the top of the stack as usual - sounds like it could come in useful. Unless there are good reasons why these two suggestions shouldn’t be considered, they sound like good candidates for inclusion to me. John Rostron and Alfred 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Design Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 Hi GarryP, Yeah, I think it would be best for the new layer to appear next to a selected layer - as scrolling all the way to the top and dragging it down to the other object became really tedious. Same with the second suggestion. I believe it would definitely make it more efficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kconkling Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 I agree as well....I always lose the objects I need to put in the new layer since its at the top and I normally have alot! Great idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbsund Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumrunner Posted November 1, 2019 Share Posted November 1, 2019 +1 I found this functionality frustrating, too. Though as a work around, you can create an empty layer and copy it. Then when you need to insert a new layer above a selected layer, paste it. It's worked pretty well for me, but selecting multiple layers and pasting will only put it above the top-most selected layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fde101 Posted December 15, 2021 Share Posted December 15, 2021 On 4/19/2019 at 7:34 AM, GB_Design said: if multiple items are selected and if "Add Layer" is pressed, automatically put them inside the new layer. The one sticky point I have on this is arbitrarily treating multiple selected layers differently from a single selected layer. If it is going to behave this way when multiple layers are selected, it should do so as well if a single layer is selected. It could potentially be a different command (New Layer Containing Selected)? Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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