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00:00 hey guys this is Isaiah from your head
00:02 software today we're talking about
00:04 stacks 4 and the 5 new features we put
00:07 into it so before I jump into the
00:10 features I just want to say I'm gonna
00:13 break these videos up into five little
00:16 videos that way you can watch them one
00:20 at a time or even pick and choose just
00:22 the features you're interested in if you
00:25 do pick and choose make sure watch
00:26 feature number five that's all about
00:28 externals and that's the big new feature
00:30 of stacks 4 alright without further ado
00:34 this is feature number one and it's all
00:37 about multiple selection so let's check
00:39 that out so I have a document here with
00:45 yeah a few stacks in it now in previous
00:50 versions of stacks we could select
00:52 something and then maybe move it around
00:56 changes properties whatever we needed to
00:59 do in stacks 4 if we hold down the
01:03 command key or the shift key we can keep
01:06 selecting multiple stacks
01:09 once we have multiple stacks selected we
01:11 can do whatever we need to do with those
01:13 stacks so I'll just drag these down to
01:16 the bottom here and you can see all
01:19 three stacks come along for the ride
01:23 works the same with duplication I'll
01:26 hold down the option key and I'll
01:28 duplicate these stacks up into this
01:30 column let's move these three into the
01:37 middle column and I'll make one more
01:40 duplicate here to the third column so
01:45 it's really easy to move things around
01:48 copy things paste things delete things
01:53 all of those things that you do with
01:55 stacks work pretty well with multiple
01:57 selection but it gets a little bit
02:00 better than that let me select all nine
02:03 of these and I'll show you how that
02:06 works
02:09 not only can you move things around in
02:11 the layout but you can make changes to
02:14 their properties so I'll open up the
02:17 border here and we'll give these guys a
02:21 border well round the corners and I'll
02:24 make the borders blue right so we made
02:30 changes to nine stacks all at once even
02:35 though the stacks are of different type
02:39 in different places they're in three
02:42 different columns
02:43 it doesn't matter hierarchy or which
02:47 stack you're selecting I don't know how
02:50 long that would have taken in stacks
02:51 three but I bet it would have been
02:53 longer than that so there are some
02:59 limitations to this though let's talk
03:02 about that so I'm gonna drag in a two
03:07 column stack here and I'll make a copy
03:10 of it I'll populate it with some of
03:14 these text acts just by option dragging
03:20 now of course all stacks have the
03:25 built-in properties like border these
03:29 responsive buttons but some stacks have
03:32 some extra properties these two columns
03:35 dax have these extra properties called
03:40 split that lets us adjust the split of
03:45 the columns and the gutter width that
03:47 lets us choose how much space there is
03:49 between them now as long as I have only
03:57 two columns select only two column
04:00 stacks selected I can make changes to
04:03 these custom properties but if I select
04:09 say a two column stack and a text stack
04:15 then a tech stack doesn't have those
04:18 custom properties so they don't show up
04:21 in fact no custom properties will show
04:24 up if you have two different types of
04:27 stacks selected even if they share some
04:31 custom properties that might have the
04:32 same name there's a good chance that
04:35 those those properties underneath the
04:37 hood of that stack work a lot
04:39 differently so for safety custom
04:43 properties are only editable when you
04:45 have multiple of the same exact stack
04:48 selected
04:51 so if I select all of these markdown
04:54 stacks those have the custom property to
04:58 render the markdown or not and we can
05:01 make that change so long as all we have
05:04 selected is markdown stacks so that's a
05:10 quick look at some of the powers that
05:13 are there with multiple selection in
05:15 stacks 4 it gives us a huge amount of
05:20 power to not only move things around in
05:22 our layout copying and pasting and
05:26 duplicating but also to make changes to
05:30 the properties of those stacks so
05:35 definitely give that a try it's uh yeah
05:39 it makes Stax feel much more powerful
05:42 than ever before right that's a quick
05:46 look at multiple selection that was
05:48 featured number one stay tuned for
05:51 feature number two that's going to be
05:55 library group customization we've added
05:58 some features to help you customize your
06:01 libraries so go check that out in the
06:03 next video and make sure and check out
06:06 feature number five that is externals
06:09 and that's the big new one thanks for
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