# Enhancement request - gnuradion-companion only opens one properties dialog at a time **URL:** \ **Category:** GNU Radio\ **Created:** [December 7, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancement-request-gnuradion-companion-only-opens-one-properties-dialog-at-a-time/237943 "2013-12-07T06:31:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/musicdenotation)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancement-request-gnuradion-companion-only-opens-one-properties-dialog-at-a-time/237943/1 "2013-12-07T06:31:07Z")
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**Author:** ![John\_Blommers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@John\_Blommers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_Blommers)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancement-request-gnuradion-companion-only-opens-one-properties-dialog-at-a-time/237943/2 "2013-12-07T06:34:37Z")
John B, Might be worth considering. In the meantime perhaps you can use a text editor to copy parameters from one block/GRC file to the other (they’re just XML). -John ---
**Author:** ![John\_Blommers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@John\_Blommers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_Blommers)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancement-request-gnuradion-companion-only-opens-one-properties-dialog-at-a-time/237943/3 "2013-12-07T07:35:22Z")
On 12/07/2013 12:30 AM, John Blommers wrote: > In gnuradio-companion, from time to time, it becomes necessary to > copy and paste the parameters from one block to another blocks In case this helps: you can copy and paste blocks in the flowgraph editor, and all parameters will be duplicated into the copy. -josh ---
**Author:** ![John\_Blommers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@John\_Blommers](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_Blommers)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/enhancement-request-gnuradion-companion-only-opens-one-properties-dialog-at-a-time/237943/4 "2013-12-07T12:37:57Z")
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:30:13PM -0800, John Blommers wrote: > As an enhancement to gnuradio-companion, might this feature be added to the > would-be-nice list please? John, you can edit the wiki page yourself. If you feel like this is something you’d like to code yourself, put your name behind it. Otherwise, remember that the GRC “wish list” page is no guarantee that someone will volunteer to implement a feature, it is meant to be a centralized place to collect ideas and mark who’s working on what. MB – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin B. Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT – University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association