Bulk change common properties of object from the same class (Like numeric representation)

[VinnyAstro]

When selecting a set of object that are from the same class, I'd like to be able to change some of their main properties at once from the right click menu.

For instance, when selecting a bunch of numeric controls, being able to change all their representation to U8 without having to open the property page (which sometimes take some time to load.

This could be done either via the r.click option, or even via the properties page that would show that it is for more than 1 item. Via the property page 

From the property page, it would be nice to have the possibility to easily change their label and caption independently and faster (using tab) than to have to change them manually by double clinking on the labels, hoping to not click on the side of the box.

This happens to me all the time:

This could be a viable option in my opinion (Please excuse my poor designer capabilities):

 - Vincent.

[raphschru]

You can already change the representation of multiple numeric controls by selecting them -> Right-click -> Properties -> Tab "Data Type". But I agree adding "Representation" to the right-click menu directly for multiple controls would be nice too.

For changing multiple labels at once, I am not a fan of having an array in the Properties page, because you sort of loose the interest of changing multiple controls at once (imagine if all other properties were arrays too...). What could be nice instead:

The option "Insert Index" could appear in case multiple objects are selected, allowing to bulk rename them logically.

As for the inconvenience that resizes the label instead of editing it when double-clicking slightly off, it seems not to be the case for diagram labels. Double-clicking in this case does nothing:

While on the front panel, it resizes the label:

This may actually be an autotool bug...

[VinnyAstro]

To me it's not only the representation, but all items with common class.

You select multiple controls (e.g. strings), IMO you should have the same capability in the right click menu, than if you selected only one (to a few exceptions obviously like fit or scale to pane)

 VS <-- This doesn't make sense!

For the renaming part, the thing with the index is that it's already built in (when copy/pasting controls) so I don't see so much the point of it.

My idea was to be able to easily rename them without only the keyboard instead of aim and shoot with the mouse. So an array of strings, unsing the Tabulation to go through all controls is much faster than selecting labels one by one.