Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 4 Mar 2016, at 8:36 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Ironically, drag-select is the exact use case that prompted me >> to STOP using cantSelect. I was working on a drawing pane and >> had an object covering the full space within the drawing region >> behind everything else I wanted to user to be able to interact >> with. My turning on the cantSelect for that larger object it >> no longer responds to the pointer tool, which is expected of >> course but makes drag-select impossible is the drag begins within >> that object. > > Yes, this would seem to be a bug in cantSelect where you can drag > to select everything else but only if the initial click is not > inside the cantSelect object. I’m not positive it has always been > this way as it seems to rule out the use case that both Scott and > I have used it for!
AFAIK this has always been how it works. In fact I discussed this with Dr. Raney shortly after if was implemented, and in his view it works as spec'd: when you mouseDown anywhere in browser mode it doesn't do marquee select, so when an individual object is set to browser mode it does the same thing.
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