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.
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.