Am 2010-01-26 19:29, schrieb John Jason Jordan: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:41:39 +0000 > Sveinn ? Felli<sveinki at nett.is> dijo: > >> ?ann ?ri 26.jan 2010 10:13, JLuc skrifa?i: >>> >>> With some other DTP tools, ALL boxes >>> that come across the selection rectangle are selected >>> even if all sides are not completely inside the rectangle. >>> Selecting lots of boxes requires just a little rectangle, >>> giving a comfort and power feeling feedback to the user :-) > >> Then there is a neat selection 'feature' used in some CAD >> applications (the biggest and most bloated): >> Selection rectangle from left-to-right selects only those >> objects completely 'surrounded' by the rectangle, and a >> selection rectangle from right-to-left selects all objects >> which are 'touched' by the rectangle area. The direction of >> these selection methods is swappable. >> >> Would that be desireable in a DTP app ? > > I think that would be very confusing, especially for beginners. I can > see the posts to the list coming already - "have I found a bug here?" I would really welcome both sorts of selection. Usually in CAD-Programms the different mode of selection is displayed via a differnent linestyle of the selection rectangle. For ex. Select only inside: full line. Select crossing (what crosses the rectangle): use linestyle with space (sorry, I miss the english name). I really really beg to keep a selection-mode for everything which is completely inside. This is often the (almost) only way to select groups of objects which are partially behind others.
Greetings Ralf > > The first drawing app I ever used was CorelDRAW, a long time ago. It > required the object to be entirely enclosed, the same as Scribus. Later > I went to other drawing apps which select any object touched. It drove > me crazy because I could never completely change my Corel habits. > > I would go for a user choice in Preferences. But having said that, > developer time is thin and there are lots more pressing issues. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
