Re: Area select inside objects

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 10 Feb 2004, Dmitry Perfilyev wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is it possible select group of objects inside another objects ?
> In other words: I have big rectangle which occupy many screens.
> And inside this rectange there are a lot of other objects.
> When I try to select some area inside this rectangle - I move
> this big rectange. And cann't select. Not with Ctrl, Alt or any
> other keys. "Area select" can be made if only select begin
> in free area - that not belong any object.

Here's a trick that I just discovered as I was ready to tell you that
you're out of luck on this one:  Select the big rectangle, then Shift-drag
on it.  Since Shift-clicking unselects the object, the dragging becomes a
normal box-drag, which should do what you want.

-Lars

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