Hi.

First of all, I'll say that you'lll probably not be able to reproduce this. I encountered this behaviour on a win7 computer with a old (grown in size many times and is created by earlier beta versions) svg file. I'm not able to reproduce the behaviour on my home computer with win xp.

Second (this is very important): I used version 0.48 r10575 downloaded from modevia.com in both cases.

The steps to reproduce:

1. Get an old (mine is about two month old) svg file with at least two layers. Both/all layers include several types of objects (basic objects, guides, icon size pictures and a bounch of clones)
2. Just for references I call the layers for layer1 and layer2. Doesn't matter wich one is topmost.
3. Make sure layer dialog box is apparen. I prefer it undocked, and that is also case when I tested.
4. Make notice of what layer is active. Say layer 1 is active.
5. Select an object that belongs in layer 2, by holding Alt key down (Rubberband, touch selection).
6. Watch the layer dialog box, and take notice what layer is active now.

I was almost to post a bug report on this, but I wanted to be sure. Therefore I did the same test on my home computer.

What bugs me now is WHY I get this behaviour on the w7 computer and not my home computer?

From my point of view it can be one of three, or a mix of reasons:

1. The file is somhow crippled/corrupted
2. It's because of w7
3. There is some setting that is weird on the w7 computer

And here is just a list of things I haven't done yet:

1. Tested the svg file on my home computer (don't think I can)
2. On the w7 computer, tested behaviour on a brand new file.

If anybody have an idea what setting may be wrong, I'd happily change the setting and tell if behaviour changes.

Thanks

I'm not familiar with Modevia, and didn't know Inkscape was available outside of Sourceforge. So I wonder if you've tested with the same version, except downloaded from SF? Maybe the Modevia files are funky?

brynn wrote:I'm not familiar with Modevia, and didn't know Inkscape was available outside of Sourceforge

These are the dvelopment builds.

Grobe wrote:If anybody have an idea what setting may be wrong, I'd happily change the setting and tell if behaviour changes

You could try different settings in your Inkscape preferences>selection dialog. Your two machines may be set differently. as you predicted, I am not able to reproduce your problem. Using the alt key and clicking on an multiply overlapping region cycles through the z-order correctly, and with each click the layer dialog updates to show the right layer.

Hi.

I've now got the chance to test a little more on the w7 computer.

The steps to reproduce was a bit wrong. When I noticed this, I was also able to reproduce the behaviour on the other XP computer.

Instead of selecting just ONE object, try select at least two objects in same layer at once. That layer won't become active. This behaviour is to bee observed also when normal selection method is used (drawing a rectangle around all objects to select them).


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I found that it's related to Bug #168443.