Craig Ringer wrote: >On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 08:58 -0500, Louis Desjardins wrote: > > > >>Yes Craig, this works (although I would add that once you've started >>resizing the frame holding down CTRL key will only allow to resize >>proportionally... At a certain point, you have to let go that key if >>you want more flexibility) and if it's OK I'd put that as a note in >>bug #1659. Might be useful. I still think the behaviour of Scribus on >>selecting overlapping frames is difficult to deal with, even with >>that trick. I think there is room for improvement here. :) >> >> > >I tend to agree. Perhaps if there is a selected object, it should always >be treated as "on top" for input - that is, should always receive mouse >clicks even if it has another object overlapping the clicked location. > >Maybe this can be done during the scribusview.cpp cleanup. > > As sort of a half-baked feature request, perhaps there could be a keyboard command to cycle selection of frames on the current selected page....
Potential example: Ctrl-Tab selects the "next" frame, cycling through the frames on a page, then back to the first frame. Shift-Ctrl-Tab selects the "previous" frame in a similar manner. Greg
