Well, the standard behavior on most software has always been that if
you've got several items selected, the right click menu should show up
the common parameters between them and you'd be able to change all of
them at once.

On Mar 20, 12:33 pm, fraguada <[email protected]> wrote:
> To me the way it works now is just fine, though I find it strange and
> interesting that many people (including myself) tried to select a
> bunch of things and turn the preview off or on and expected it to work
> that way the first time..where is that coming from?  To work on
> something like this does not seem like it would be of high
> priority...and probably best to minimize the confusion and complexity
> of the existing components.
> luis
>
> On Mar 20, 7:59 am, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Gerard, Luis,
>
> > Wouldn't it be terribly confusing to have Preview be the one menu
> > option that works across different objects?
> > What if you open the menu of a non-selected object, while there is a
> > selection? Should I then toggle preview for all selected objects AND
> > the non-selected one?
>
> > --
> > David Rutten
> > [email protected]
> > Robert McNeel & Associates
>
> > On Mar 19, 10:00 pm, fraguada <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Gerard,
> > > I too think it would make sense to select many, right-click, and have
> > > them previewed or not.
>
> > > For now, you can select them and hit ctrl-shift-q to turn them all off
> > > at once, or ctrl-q to show them OR in the Solution Menu, "Selected
> > > Preview On/Off," but you prob knew that already...
>
> > > luis
>
> > > On Mar 19, 9:30 pm, Gerard Petersen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > David,
>
> > > > Often I need to preview multiple objects at once. As I try to organise
> > > > my canvas they're often in a column so selection with a window is
> > > > easy. When I also would be able to switch preview on/off for multiple
> > > > objects I can work much faster.
> > > > Intuitively I often select with a window several objects, hoover above
> > > > one of them, right-click and switch on preview.........but only that
> > > > object is shown then.
>
> > > > Cheers,
>
> > > > Gerard
>
> > > > RhinoCentre

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