Lock & unlock

[MarionSh]

I find the lock feature very useful - but what I would love is an 'unlock all' function. Is there a way to unlock a selection of objects?

For example today I set up a table with a number of entries showing and some hidden by an annotation. I locked it all (by selecting it all and locking them in one go), but of course a little while later I wanted to add something else to the page and needed to move the grid - painfully I had to unlock each bit, bit by bit. Very tedious. Of course I wish I'd just locked it on the background (because there is a single unlock background objects function), but the annoatations need to be locked on the top layer so that they can be rubbed out.

[jtw521]

Make sure you group objects before locking them.

[MarionSh]

Yes - but I so often forget to group them, just select them then lock (even though its only Ctl G I still forget!)

[Jon' Allen]

There will be a handy group/ungroup button added to the marquee select handles in AS3 that will make life a bit simpler! - AS3 out in Jan07