You could also try changing the level of the overlaying layers. Move the unwanted shape to a lower level. Item > Level. George
On 30 Mar 2010 at 9:34, Mike Sleger wrote: > Is there an easier way to select polygons within a stack of shapes > on the same layer? If I have two overlaying shapes with similar > extents, I can only click on the top shape. Other graphics packages > will cycle through the overlayed shapes with each mouse click. Is > there an environment setting in Scribus that I need to modify to > enable this capability, or can I select a polygon by its name > somewhere? I currently need to resort to temporarily moving a shape > to a different layer (because Scribus will not allow selection of > shapes that aren't on the "active" layer, regardless of whether the > layer is locked or not), select the desired shape, make my edits, > then restore the "higher" shape(s) back to their original layer. > There must be an easier way.... > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
