Selecting and locking objects in close proximity

[Sarah Carpenter]

Help :eek: ]

I have made a flipchart page which has sounds and boxes on, with the sound icon being in close proximity to the boxes. I do need the sound icons to remain on the screen (ie. not embedded sounds). I need to lock the boxes as I don't want them to be moved as I want them to be erased (image underneath). I can do all of that no probs but when I go to select the box that I want to be locked it also picks up the sound icon that is close to it and therefore a locked sound icon will not play. I really do not have the space to move the sound icons further away - any ideas around this one!! :confused:

Thanks +wave+

Sarah

[Sarah Carpenter]

Thought it might help if I included a screen shot.

[Louise Chew]

If you go into design mode & right click on the box & choose lock from there
that should definately only select the box & not the shape - not unless the shape & the boxes are grouped..

If this doesn't work then put the page on the forum & I'll have a go on your flipchart

[Sarah Carpenter]

Hi Louise
Thanks for reply. I had tried the right click lock option but still no joy - what I think it was, was that the question mark which had been grouped with the box was taller in image size than the rectangle and that when I was trying to select the image it was including the sound icon as it was in its space! So what I ended up doing was creating a new box with a much smaller question mark and that works fine. [clap]
Thanks
Sarah +wave+

[alicegop]

Is it at all possible to make it an OPTION for it to automatically group? I would like to be able to set my own grouping instead of it being chosen for me. The other day I drew a picture of a guy on top of a building (showing parabolas) and we were talking about him diving down into a pool, so I wanted to group my drawing of the guy but I couldn't select all the pen strokes for the guy and not get adjoining things (like the question) and other stokes. And I wanted to show his motion and rotate him but because I couldn't group them permanently together it was difficult!!!!

Another example is when you are graphing system of equations by graphing and so you graph two lines and shade the region in common. The shading gets grouped with the graph and the lines but the grouping caused my overexuberant shading to grab other things that I didn't want to move.

[Sarah Carpenter]

Hi

I'm assuming you must have automatic annotation grouping on (ie ticked) - you can check this by looking in Flipchart Objects, within Settings (Promethean Man, menu ....).

I suppose what you could do and it SHOULD work is untick automatic annotation grouping, then draw your picture(s) and then carefully marquee select the lines you want to group and then in Design Mode choose object properties and tick grouped in identification. In fact it would probably be easier/better to use the Shift key and the left mouse button to individually select the lines you want to group (depending on the detail of your drawing! :eek: ).

Hope that makes some sense - it's still early for me!! :confused:

Sarah +wave+