On 10/26/2008 06:25 PM, bulia byak wrote: 
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Diederik van Lierop
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This brings me to some other point though: Hasn't any one ever thought
of using the tab key to cycle through the items which are to be
selected? Now we can use left-click and alt-left-click to select an item
on the canvas, but this is still tricky when there are many overlapping
items. Modern 3D CAD programs show a list of all available items near
the mouse pointer when left-clicking, through which the user can cycle
with the tab key, including highlighting on canvas! Now wouldn't that be
cool too?
    

I don't really think "cool" will be the applicable to a situation
where you click and then have to select something from a list, instead
of immediate action :)

Of course, you should've read "useful" instead of "cool" ;-). In Unigraphics for example, you get the immediate action that you like, but if you hover above an item and wait for about half a second before clicking, you'll get a pop-up menu. This delay is user configurable and after that delay the pointer changes slightly as a hint. I like it this way, but maybe that's because I'm  used to it.

Note that I'm not claiming that Unigraphics has a great UI though, it even had an "edit" menu at the left of the "file" menu :-(

But if anyone wants to implement that, let's discuss the details. Of
course it should be optional, for most people and drawings click and
alt-click works just fine.


I would volunteer.... someday ;-)


Diederik