Select multiple items

[oleg68]

Earlier there was a capability of selecting several elements (for example, ranks in a windchest).

Bot now there is no such capability. Could you restore it?

[eturpault]

The difficulty is that if several sections are selected at the same time, a same action (drag&drop, delete, link to a parent) should be applied to all of them, and it is not always possible, especially if they are of different types.
For which use case would you need to act on several sections at the same time ?
If several sections are selected, OdfEdit could restrict the actions to what is possible on these sections selected together.

[oleg68]

The first use case: I want to convert a large organ with hundreds of ranks into a small one. So I need to select extra ranks and delete them.

Another use case is to move a selection of stops from one manual to another (including in the first use case: convert a three manual organ to a two manual one), and to move a selection of ranks from one windchest to another.

[eturpault]

Ok clear, I will try to implement in the next version the selection of multiple items. They will have to be all of the same type (Rank sections only for example), else OdfEdit will select automatically only the first item, and probably all operations will not be possible on this set of sections (maybe only delete, drag).
OdfEdit v2.16 brings several interesting improvements I think to facilitate the ODF edition, the selection of multiple items can be an additional improvement certainly.

[eturpault]

@oleg68 It is implemented in OdfEdit v2.17.
It let this issue opened some time in case you want to provide a feedback about this evolution.