Hi!
I am searching a way to easily add selections. I can hold SHIFT while selecting objects but in fact it DOESN'T ADD selections but only INVERTS it. So if I already have something selected, I hold SHIFT to grow my selection but then selected objects get deselected when I cross-through them with the new selection area. Is there any key to ONLY-ADD selection?
This SHIFT-selecting is soooo.... I have no words. So non-intuitive. Makes selecting numerous objects a nightmare.
Are you using a version of CorelDRAW that supports the use of VBA macros? The full version does; the Home & Student version does not.
I am asking because I wrote a small VBA macro that allows one to "just add to selection" or "just remove from selection" - different from the "toggle" behavior that you get by holding down Shift while selecting additional items.
Use the Ctrl and Alt keys with a number to create / add objects to a selection group
Make a selection
Press Ctrl + a number from 0 to 9. This will create a selection group and associate it to the number you used. Thenceforth every time you press just the number the group of objects you associated to the number will be selected.
For example lets use the number 1
Make a selection of objects and Press Ctrl+1. This will create the selection group 1 with the objects.
Now make another selection of objects and Press Alt+1. This will add the newly selected object to the selection group 1
Deselect all objects.
Just press the number 1 and you will see that all the objects you chose in the above steps have been selected..
You can continue adding more objects to the selection as desired just by selecting more objects and pressing Alt+1
Other forum members might be able to add / explain more eloquently.
Your suggestion of using "selection groups" is a good one.
The nice thing about using the macros that I mentioned is that they allow one to make a rectangular marquee selection, and have all of the items in the rectangle added to (or retained in) the selection - even if some of them were already in the selection. The normal behavior would be for items in the rectangular marquee to be removed from the selection if they were already in it.
So, these macros allow "pure add" or "pure remove", not the normal "toggle".
Has something changed from X7? Maybe I'm not understanding correctly. If you marquee select several shapes then hold shift to select other items it does in fact add them to the selection. However, when trying to add several shapes again by marquee selection and you completely engulf a full shape that was already selected it will then deselect that shape.
Myron said:However, when trying to add several shapes again by marquee selection and you completely engulf a full shape that was already selected it will then deselect that shape.
I don't think that anything has changed. What you describe is what I am accustomed to seeing.
The normal "selection toggle" behavior is why I wrote some macros to allow "just add to selection" and "just remove from selection". Perhaps I want to add some objects to the active selection. It would be easy to get them with a rectangular marquee, but I can't do that without also getting some other objects that are already in the active selection - and will thus be removed, owing to the normal "selection toggle" behavior.
For "pure add to selection", you might instead think, "Make sure that everything I just specified with the rectangular marquee is included in the active selection - even if some of those objects were already in the active selection.