A dialog for File->Merge

[micheus]

MikeJ, I think you lose some posts where some questions would be answered.

Is there any way to select more than one item (but not all) in the scroll window?

Do you plan to add the ability to do multiple object selections at this time or is that something you will do at a later date? You said this would be done in the future. Just wondering how soon.

For both questions: By now, no way. There is no component that I can use that enable me do that (I wonder if so), and as dgud is changing the UI code for the next release I cannot play with it. That's why in my last post I said that "It'll become prepared to multiple selections in the future"

In the "selection options" section, "make all new selection" is a little bit vague such that I had to experiment with it to figure out what it meant.

The text in the information line should make it more clear.

Therefore, I might name this something like "select newly-merged objects" or "merged objects selected" or something like that. What do you think?

Additionally, I might change "add to current" and "replace the current" to "add to current scene selection" and "replace current scene selection". Or perhaps "add to current selected objects" and "replace current selected objects". Something along those lines.

Naming is always under construction. Thanks for the suggestions.

One final thing, I can't understand why the "keep the current" option is there. Perhaps I'm not understanding fully the operation of the "selection options" section but it seems to me like this option is superfluous. If you want the current selection kept after the merge then you simply don't check the "make all new selection" box. You wouldn't select the "make all new selection" box only to then check the "keep the current" radio button. Would you? Perhaps I'm not understanding.

Again, I think it was already explained before, but the main concept here is: you can have selections in the current scene and you can have selections in the scene being merged. So you would make a combination of then.
You know if you have selection in the file if the options are available (see the image - post #43)

Do you plan to add image merge control at this time so that unwanted images (i.e. renders) are not merged in?

Yeah. But I think that it would be less useful than for the other elements, since we can only select one image. Maybe I could filter the "render" name!?

Unfortunately we can improve the Merge just a little bit by now, but I think it can help us more than the current one. Because of the dgud changes, we would be able to know if we'll have new controls only in the next release of Wings3d and a new update only for the other release. So, I would like to make this one the better we can and submit it soon and finish it in the future.