Convert Symbol to Group bug report

[MisterH]

A rare case of symbol ?misbehavior? has been discovered, if all of the following parameters are met:

After creating a new symbol, containing only ONE object with an assigned class name and using the class settings in the attributes palettes, and if this symbol has never modified in any way, i.e adding a second object or converting a rectangle to a polygon etc., then when converting this Symbol to Group, the object will take on the attributes of the default class, which in most cases is the none class. This is due to the symbol actually converting to an object, rather then to a group.

The fix for this problem is, to simply add an object to the symbol, save it, and then re-enter the symbol and deleting the bogus object. Now, when converting Symbol to Group, it will remain a group and will retain the original class attributes.

[mike m oz]

Could it be that when you created the symbol your class was set to None.

Then the symbol would have the class of none, notwithstanding that the object inside it has a different class.

When I tried it with the Class set to the Class of the object it works fine.

[MisterH]

When converting this single object Symbol to Group, the object will take on the attributes of the then active class, i.e. the class that is active when the symbol is converted to group. Although this seems odd, the symbol becomes a single object as opposed to a group when converted to a group.

Prior to converting, almost any change to the single object symbol will cause it to be a group when converted. This group will take on the attributes of the then active class. But the contents of the group, even the single object, will retain their original attributes and class.