This sounds very similar to the way several CAE packages handle this issue. FOr instance in Patran, (a finite element preprocessor) when you click to select something where you could be aiming for any of a choice of objects its pops up a list box of possibles, automatically selecting the 'top' one. if thats the rightone you can carry on as usual and it doesnt affect the work flow at all, or you can change which items selected, and then carry on. Unigraphics does something similar, except when the list pops up you can cycle through the options using the middle mouse button.
could be a useful tool.
--- Felix Rabe <xitnalta@...128...> wrote:
Just had this idea:
A new tool. When you click on a point in the canvas, a new window pops up with a list of all the objects beneath that point. Canvas and new
window are interconnected - what you select on the canvas gets selected on the list and vice versa. A checkbox in that new window would then
enable pressed Alt key behaviour.
It would be good to have this (or something else making the feature graphically accessible) in parallel to the Alt-Click stuff anyway, since you have visual scale handles, and the <> keys; you have the (F1) selection tool, and the cursor keys; you have the F1...Fx keys (and other shortcuts) and the tool buttons. You always have a thing you can click on and another thing (key) to use the same capability directly from the keyboard.
- Felix
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