Default Object Styles applied to new objects

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

What is the status of this "problem"? From what I remember - it wasn't "working" as expected?

[Mike Witherell]

Hi Robert, I'm not sure what you mean in this question. Could you expand on the description please?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

From what I remember - people were complaining, that when they were creating TFs or shapes - active / selected ObjectStyle wasn't applied - but rather default ones, 2nd and 3rd. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Isn't it like all other ID presets — if you select an Object Style with no document or element selected, it will become the default for all new objects?

A quick test of it seems to work that way, allowing for the Text/Graphics dichotomy.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I mean in the open document. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

The technique works the same whether you have a doc open or not, and other than that you have to set one for text frames and one for (basically) all other objects, it seems consistent/persistent to me. But it does not persist from doc to doc, at least, not if the style is not defined in the second doc.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

When you set Default Graphic FRAME Style:

and then draw new Rectangle / Oval / Polygon FRAME

- it will apply ObjectStyle [None].

But if you draw Rectangle / Oval / Polygon:

it will apply "default" ObjectStyle - no matter which one is selected.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Oh. Yep. I rarely draw frames directly so I didn't catch that. But there appears to be a hard default of [None].

Which, in the spectrum of things ID, makes a certain kind of sense, at least.

[Mike Witherell]

The only trick I know of is to make your Object style and name it "Place Gun Frame". It is the only one that will default to a new image place command.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

The only trick I know of is to make your Object style and name it "Place Gun Frame". It is the only one that will default to a new image place command.

By @Mike Witherell

Yes, I saw this video.