Refresh building

[KarolDaniluk]

Hello
Currently we have an option called Place Building that puts a new building with given size, color, icon, label and options.
However it would be great if next to it there would be a Refresh Building button, that instead of placing a new building would change options of selected buildings. Sometimes there is a need of changing one option on multiple objects (like road tiles) and placing them all over again is time consuming.
Thanks

[StingMcRay]

For coloring objects, we have the repaint option, so no need to replacing objects

You can use colors you already have used (or even choice first a new color), then select all objects you want to change color with and then use this button
For other options, like influence Range / distance, naming, icons yes you must change options before and then hit the "place building" button

[FroggieFrog]

Maybe a change in how the app works is needed.
Currently the app is always in a "place object" mode.
I can imagine an "edit object" mode. When an object from the canvas is selcted, the Building Settings section displays all settings of the selected building and the Place Building button changes to Apply Changes.

Of course there are some open questions like

• What happens when the size is changed and there is not enough space available?
• What happens if multiple objects are selected?
• How to change between those modes? (Maybe enter "place object" mode after double click on tree view?)

So any feedback/ideas/PRs are welcome.

[StingMcRay]

I'm still in thinking of a custom preset file, that can be read in next to the default Presets....
Maybe we can use that also to add "user own custom" building to it (with an input screen or something)
only we need to add the custom building to the existing data of the tree, to avoid "restarts" of the program
and next time user runs the program, it is loaded with the custom preset so he can reuse it again then
(still an idea i walk around with for some months :))

[FroggieFrog]

You mean something like #158?

[StingMcRay]

Something like that, also that color.json should be a choice as well

[Atria1234]

We could add another button "Apply changes" which would be disabled when nothing is selected. It would probably be added below "Place building" button and user could specify which properties should be applied (color/influence type/influence range/borderless/label/icon/...). And it would apply those properties to all selected objects.

Changing size could be excluded to avoid problems with collision, but if you would really want it, it shouldn't be that hard to check for collisions before applying changes.