On 2007-April-12 , at 10:39 , Bill Baxter wrote:

On 4/12/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:

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In Selector tool, a new object selection mode is available: selecting by touch. In this mode, you draw a freehand path across the objects; when you release mouse button, all objects that are touched by this path get selected. This mode is very convenient in situations where you need to select objects so intermingled that selecting them by the rectangular rubberband is too difficult and so numerous that click-selecting them one by one is too tedious.

[...] Other possible names would be :

• contact selection

[...]

This one seems to correctly represent the behavior for me.

While you are at it, I just entered a bug report on the selector tool ;-) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1699065&group_id=93438

Thank you very much.

JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/