Moho Forum

1. Is there an equivalent to Illustrator's select>same menu? I find it super useful to be able to draw some shapes on a layer, then later come back to the layer, select one shape, and do things like "select same style", "select same fill color", "select same stroke weight", and so on.
2. Why does edit>select all only work when I'm selecting points, not shapes? This one's driving me insane. I really hope I'm missing something obvious here, shift-scrubbing across the entire drawing with the Shape Select tool can't be the only way to do this, can it?

1. I am really missing Illustrator's "draw in front/behind" feature. This lets you choose whether new shapes are generated at the top of the current layer, or at the bottom. This sounds trivial but in practice I find it saves a lot of effort to be able to draw stuff and not fuss with going back and selecting/depth arranging it. (Ways to select a handful of shapes and move them all in front of/behind the nearest/rearmost shape, as well as to reverse their depth order, would be helpful too - I have scripts for that in Illustrator, has anyone done those for Moho yet? If someone has, I can't figure out the right things to search the scripts site for.)
2. Is there any way to use the Freehand tool to edit parts of a selected path? This speeds up finessing shapes a lot for me. No worrying about individual points or accidentally moving around points from another nearby path, just select the path and draw over part of it.
3. Is there any way to edit the pressure curve of a stroked path after drawing it?
4. Is there any way to make the auto-stroke/fill checkboxes of the Freehand tool operate, well, automatically? Like if I have two styles, one with a fill and no stroke, the other with a stroke and no fill, I want to be able to just select the first style, freehand out a shape that has the desired fill and no stroke, then select the second style, and freehand out another shape that has a stroke and no fill, without having to interrupt going between the style dropdowns and the canvas by toggling the auto-stroke/fill checkboxes. I don't want to think about whether the current style has a stroke and/or fill at all, I just want to say "okay now I want to draw a shape in the Alba's Head style". (Really I want this to apply to every drawing tool, if I'm drawing a rectangle with the Shape tool or building a shape with Add Points then I want the fill and stroke to just show up as appropriate to the current style, too.)

1. Can I tell a style with a gradient that I always want that gradient to be at a particular angle, or do I have to manually set the gradient for every shape I draw? At least defaulting to straight up and down is better than Illustrator's default of left-to-right, I almost never want that but I often want a vertical gradient for shading...
2. aaaargh why is finding accidental keyframes that change styles such a giant hassle, I found a workaround in a seven-year-old forum post here but aaaarrrgh why don't these show up as keyframes in a "style" channel that I can turn on in view>timeline channels and have automatically show up wherever I am in the layer hierarchy when a key's generated, this drove me crazy for like a half an hour today.

egypturnash wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2024 10:10 pm ...
Questions about selecting stuff.

1. Is there an equivalent to Illustrator's select>same menu?
   -- No. But good idea and is possible in add-on/modified script.
2. Why does edit>select all only work when I'm selecting points, not shapes?
   -- Apparently this depends on the current layer type and not the selected tool. Use the [Select All] button on Shapes tool instead.

Questions about drawing.

1. I am really missing Illustrator's "draw in front/behind" feature.
   -- Possible in add-on/modified script. The Blob Brush tool has this feature, so maybe one day.
2. Is there any way to use the Freehand tool to edit parts of a selected path?
   -- No, but interesting.
3. Is there any way to edit the pressure curve of a stroked path after drawing it?
   -- You can use the Line Width tool.
4. Is there any way to make the auto-stroke/fill checkboxes of the Freehand tool operate, well, automatically?
   -- No, but would be good feature. Would need some changes in the way Shapes & Styles work.

Questions about styles.

1. Can I tell a style with a gradient that I always want that gradient to be at a particular angle
   -- Possible in add-on script.
2. aaaargh why is finding accidental keyframes that change styles such a giant hassle...
   -- Should be improved

egypturnash wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2024 10:10 pm aaaargh why is finding accidental keyframes that change styles such a giant hassle, I found a workaround in a seven-year-old forum post here but aaaarrrgh why don't these show up as keyframes in a "style" channel that I can turn on in view>timeline channels and have automatically show up wherever I am in the layer hierarchy when a key's generated, this drove me crazy for like a half an hour today.

SimplSam wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 7:19 am [*] Why does edit>select all only work when I'm selecting points, not shapes?
-- Apparently this depends on the current layer type and not the selected tool. Use the [Select All] button on Shapes tool instead.

SimplSam wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 7:19 am Is there any way to edit the pressure curve of a stroked path after drawing it?
-- You can use the Line Width tool.

Greenlaw wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2024 6:21 pm Yeah, when working with Custom Styles, that one makes me nuts, too, because it almost always happens unintentionally.