0006191: Cloning objects from a group using selection focus places the new objects in a new group

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006191	DarkRadiant	General	public	10.12.2022 14:38	28.01.2024 11:11

Reporter	Frost_Salamander	Assigned To	greebo
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	always
Status	assigned	Resolution	open
Platform	PC	OS	Windows	OS Version	11
Product Version	3.7.0

Summary	0006191: Cloning objects from a group using selection focus places the new objects in a new group
Description	If you clone individual objects from a group using selection focus, they will end up in a new group. I could see this making sense if you clone most of the objects in the group, but to do that you probably wouldn't use selection focus. You'd clone the group and just remove what you don't want. For cloning say one or two objects it's not really useful and I always end up having to ungroup the cloned objects.
Steps To Reproduce	1. Open a new map and create a brush 2. Clone the brush and group both of them 3. Select the group, and 'toggle selection focus' 4. In this mode, select one of the brushes and clone it 5. Note the new brush is in a new group (see colour of outline), and you can perform an 'ungroup' operation on it. Same thing happens if you clone multiple objects. As mentioned above, this might be desirable to some, but FWIW I can't think I'd ever want that.
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greebo 28.01.2024 10:12 administrator ~0016456	The behaviour of moving cloned objects into newly created groups (while keeping the relationship between the objects intact) was implemented on purpose, but this was before the selection focus feature has been implemented. Since grouping has no effect when selection focus is active, it sounds reasonable to change the cloning behaviour such that every cloned item inherits the group membership from its original.

greebo 28.01.2024 10:14 administrator ~0016457	We don't appear to have unit tests covering the existing cloning algorithm, so this is something that should be done in the course of this issue.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
10.12.2022 14:38	Frost_Salamander	New Issue
28.01.2024 10:07	greebo	Status	new => acknowledged
28.01.2024 10:12	greebo	Status	acknowledged => confirmed
28.01.2024 10:12	greebo	Note Added: 0016456
28.01.2024 10:14	greebo	Note Added: 0016457
28.01.2024 11:11	greebo	Assigned To	=> greebo
28.01.2024 11:11	greebo	Status	confirmed => assigned