Re: Selection Inverse, Remove, Union...

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 12.05.2009 12:08, Lars Ræder Clausen wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 00:19 +0200, Maciej Jaros wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to translate some stuff and came across menu Selection > 
> > Inverse, Remove, Union and such. I tried this out and nothing seemed to 
> > work. I've also haven't found this here:
> > http://dia-installer.de/doc/en/selecting-chapter.html#select-invert
>
> These used to work, but don't any more. 
Never used this feature before, but apparently it got broken with the 
GtkAction porting, i.e. the last version this feature worked was 0.95!

> They always do Union.
Even worse. If you change from Replace once it stays at Union until 
restart. Unselecting objects only works by Select/None

> > Also "Reverse dragging selects intersecting objects" doesn't seem to 
> > work (or I don't know how to do that ;-)).
>
> That one has worked for a long time, and I use it a lot. Notice how when
> you drag from upper-left to lower-right to select objects, you have to
> totally enclose the objects in your selection to select them? If you
> drag from lower-right to upper-left, you select all objects that you
> touch in the slightest.
Still works for me - and I use it a lot, too.

        Hans

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