Selecting Multiple Items in Inventory and Object Contents

I think that one way to really improve the inventory would be the capability to select and move more than one item at a time. Having to move each, for example textures from a texture pack, into your inventory can be time consuming and cumbersome. Also, having to move one item at a time makes organising our messy inventories even harder. Does anyone agree with me? Please give us the ability to move multiple items in 1.3.6!

In the meantime a slight workaround is to select multiple objects in inventory, copy, paste to the new location, then multiselect the originals and delete all at once.

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Once again I endorse this idea/feature. And will continue to do so untill its implemented.

I was about to request the same thing, this is such an obvious oversight, there is no reason for this not to bne implemented.

It has always amazed me that they can figure out how to create a massive streaming 3d world, but not multiple item drag in inventory. The inventory window has suffered so long as the single worst part of the UI. While multiple selection drag/drop will definitely help, the entire inventory window needs rearchitechted - it fails miserably to manage such a large number of items.

Cristiano

It's not that the Lindens haven't figured out a way to make the inventory better, it's that they haven't bothered yet. They know it sucks. Just keep telling them you want it fixed, and they'll fix it.

Agreed, It occured to me today how much easier it would be if I could also open multiple folders, as seperate windows, to move things between instead of scrolling up and down a long list.

You can ... kinda

Open inv... go right to top, click File->New Window

Thank you, Sio. :-*

I thought I had remembered reading in one of the updates that we could now have two inventory windows open for this purpose. But when I tried to do it this weekend, I couldn't figure out how. :-/ Somewhat non-intuitive, I think.

i'll ask again. this is so obvious, it seems silly to ask. but i suppose we will have to continue asking. so i'm asking, please.

Um...Ditto. The entire file browsing system desperately needs some lovin.

Is there any possible way to leverage the existing API's in Windows and make the inventory window an external window that behaves exactly like Windows Explorer and communicates with the servers on its own?

While we're at it, is there any way to reduce UI lag?

A hundred times, yes!

What nergal said - cubed

It also helps if anyone is selling somthing that contains several items like textures, clothing outfits of multiple pieces to set the for sale to contents instead of copy.

Contents gives you a folder in your inventory vs a box that you have to rez and extract all the contents from.

This is a NO-BRAINER. This feature should have been in from day one.

I like the explorer sugestion, save for the fact that it's using explorer as the example.

The problem with this will be mainly concerning portability. If the SL client were to use Windows Explorer directly as a folder-hirarchy manager, not only would it be bug-riddled, it would require the SL developers to make tedious changes to the code if SL were ever ported to another OS. *Designing* the inventory so it functions like Windows Explorer, without using Windows-specific APIs, on the other hand, might be an idea worth discussing



One thing SL is lacking is multithreading. I think handling the SL UI in a seperate thread is a good idea to help reduce the lag visible to the user.

==Chris