Is there a possibility to activate (highlight/select) layer by clicking on the Eye icon in AI?
Is there any setup I can do in AI that when I click on the EYE icon at the Layer, the layer is getting selected by that? It is very inconvenient for me to open the eye and then the layer again to activate it...
Mariya Hrynyuk
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Mariya, there is a feature request about Layer comps that can possibly give what you need. I suggest vote there if you feel it solves it for you: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32923834
As for the 'layers used to go selected when turned on in earlier versions' — I checked it in Ai10, and nope, it didn’t behave like this even there. Visibility of a layer is one thing, selecting it is another.
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Lance
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"We are doing tech packs for garments, using about 7 layers, one is locked and visible, and with others, we are doing updates at one layer at a time. so it drives me mad to click each time first to the eye and then to the layer, and so on... It is the system, we have to use in the company I work for..."
I'd have to see this happen in real-time, because I don't understand the need to select the layer after switching on visibility, unless the layer is invisible and there's some critical function or operation that absolutely requires the layer itself to be selected after being made visible.
I see it behaving as suggested in the Appearance panel though, which I never noticed before. Still not sure exactly what the benefit of that is.
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Mariya Hrynyuk
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to: Egor
(Funny that using Eye icon in Appearance panel DOES select the attribute... and I don’t like it, because the way visibility controls behave for Appearance is different in many other ways.)Yes, I think in earlier versions of AI it was organized together Eye+ select at Layers too.
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Mariya Hrynyuk
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We are doing tech packs for garments, using about 7 layers, one is locked and visible, and with others, we are doing updates at one layer at a time. so it drives me mad to click each time first to the eye and then to the layer, and so on... It is the system, we have to use in the company I work for...
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Mariya Hrynyuk
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to: Lance
thank you,
I need exactly this one: '' to use the layer's visibility icon as a select/deselect switch instead of visibility on/off switch?'' -
Interesting. There is no existing setup that does this. These are two distinct operations, and so far I don’t know any vector app that allows to force auto-selection on visibility change.
Since you are on Windows, you can use something like AutoHotKey to script this behaviour, but I have doubts that the investments worth it if you never tried to automate with AHK before...
Funny that using Eye icon in Appearance panel DOES select the attribute... and I don’t like it, because the way visibility controls behave for Appearance is different in many other ways.
Otherwise, the change does not feel consistent / well-thought through — yet. What about a selection on hiding, as Lance talks about? What about locking — should it select an object on unlock?
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Lance
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I don't see a new functionality such as described below being a problem:
click the eye/layer visibility icon of a *hidden* layer to show the layer and then automatically also select the layer in the pallet
But then what happens when clicking a already visible layer's visibility icon? If that layer isn't yet selected, do you want to hide the layer from view while also selecting it?
Or are you asking to use the layer's visibility icon as a select/deselect switch instead of a visibility on/off switch?
