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.
To activate selecting by touch, whenever you are drawing a rubberband rectangle, just press Alt to switch it to the touch mode. The rectangle will disappear and a red touch path will be shown instead. When dragging from an empty space, you can press Alt first and then start to drag to get the touch mode (note that your selection must be empty, otherwise Alt+dragging will move the selected objects instead). To start a touch selection from a point over an object, or to add to existing selection by touching, press Shift+Alt and then start to drag.
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I'm not too fond of the name "touch selection"; naming suggestions are welcome. Note however that this is not a "lasso" because you don't need to enclose objects, just touch them; and it is not "magic wand" because it does not try to select similar-styled objects.
Some Adobe Illustrator users have requested a support for an AI-like selection mode where any object _touched_ by the selection rectangle is selected. Inkscape's new touch selection mode should satisfy them - it is a superset of AI's functionality because a touch path can be arbitrary and not only a box. Note, however, that AI gets this exactly backwards: in it, a rectangle selection selects by touching, whereas a freehand "lasso tool" needs to enclose objects to select them (although its definition of "enclosing" is rather strange - I was able to get very difficult to explain results with that tool).
bulia byak wrote:
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.
Sweet! This one will be very handy in the future. :D
Comments:
I'm not too fond of the name "touch selection"; naming suggestions are welcome.
"Scribble Select?" It felt like I was scribbling to make my selection.
John
On 4/12/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
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.
To activate selecting by touch, whenever you are drawing a rubberband rectangle, just press Alt to switch it to the touch mode. The rectangle will disappear and a red touch path will be shown instead. When dragging from an empty space, you can press Alt first and then start to drag to get the touch mode (note that your selection must be empty, otherwise Alt+dragging will move the selected objects instead). To start a touch selection from a point over an object, or to add to existing selection by touching, press Shift+Alt and then start to drag.
Comments:
I'm not too fond of the name "touch selection"; naming suggestions are welcome. Note however that this is not a "lasso" because you don't need to enclose objects, just touch them; and it is not "magic wand" because it does not try to select similar-styled objects.
Some Adobe Illustrator users have requested a support for an AI-like selection mode where any object _touched_ by the selection rectangle is selected. Inkscape's new touch selection mode should satisfy them - it is a superset of AI's functionality because a touch path can be arbitrary and not only a box. Note, however, that AI gets this exactly backwards: in it, a rectangle selection selects by touching, whereas a freehand "lasso tool" needs to enclose objects to select them (although its definition of "enclosing" is rather strange - I was able to get very difficult to explain results with that tool).
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Just a few ideas i cooked up with a online Thesaurus. Hopefully better than the current name for the selection mode. Touch Selection seems to be right direction but is a little confusing still. Not that is would matter what its called its still great functionality. Great stuff as always bulia.
Mark Selection Score Selection Intersection Selection Passage Selection Overpass Selection Traverse(or traversal) Selection
Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow
On 4/12/07, Joshua Blocher <verbalshadow@...400...> wrote:
Just a few ideas i cooked up with a online Thesaurus. Hopefully better than the current name for the selection mode. Touch Selection seems to be right direction but is a little confusing still. Not that is would matter what its called its still great functionality. Great stuff as always bulia.
Mark Selection Score Selection Intersection Selection Passage Selection Overpass Selection Traverse(or traversal) Selection
Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow
Great functionality indeed ! IMO, Touch selection is a good name. Otherwise, I would choose Overpass selection from Joshua's proposals.
Romain
I am happy with touch selection. It describes what it does and has already been used half a dozen times :-) Erik
Erik Halbert kaver@...68...
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:16:08 -0300 "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
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.
Terrific! You're really adding great features every day now, 0.46 will be amazing if you continue like this :)
I think it would make sense to have this selection mode for the node context as well. It would probably be better to use the "lasso" kind of selection for that as nodes are harder to hit.
-- Gustav
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:41:48 +0200, Gustav Broberg <broberg@...370...> wrote:
I think it would make sense to have this selection mode for the node context as well. It would probably be better to use the "lasso" kind of selection for that as nodes are harder to hit.
Not necessarily -- I think "touch selection" should work pretty well for nodes provided there's a tolerance radius, where a node is selected so long as you get within some distance of it (the size of a node handle should be sufficient).
-mental
When I was using 3ds max a few years ago there was a selection option toggle called "Crossing Region". Selection "boxes" and shapes created with the lasso tool were "selection regions" and when you activated this toggle everything that touched (crossed) the region was selected, and when it was disabled it reverted to a "select if the object is all in the region".
I think Crossing Region is a good name, but touch selection is good too.
P-Luc
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