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Attached to Project: Koda
Opened by Chris Haslam - 17.06.2011

FS#300 - Multiple selection of controls within a Group

I have written in the proposed Help:

To select all controls in an area of the active form, hold the left mouse button down and drag to select an area of the form. All controls wholely within, and partly within, this area are selected.

This often does not work when I try to select several controls in a Group, and is driving me nuts with the Style dialogs. :-)

I suggest that Koda be changed such that:

  • clicking within a Group in the Design area does not select the Group
  • a Group can only be selected in the Design Area by clicking on (or near) its border, not on a drag handle.
Admin
Admin commented on 17.06.2011 17:05

Don't sure it's possible here. But I'll look.

Chris Haslam commented on 17.06.2011 19:45

While you are looking at that area of the code:

  1. Select Control 1 with left-click. Boundaries show.
  2. Select Control 2 with Shift left-click. Boundaries of neither control show.
  3. Select Control 3 with Shift left-click. Boundaries of Controls 1 and 2 show.
  4. Select Control 4 with Shift left-click. Boundaries of all controls except the last one selected show.

It would be nice if, when I select Controls 2 and up, the boundaries of all selected controls show. So the above would become:

  1. Select Control 1 with left-click. Boundaries show.
  2. Select Control 2 with Shift left-click. Boundaries of both controls show.
  3. Select Control 3 with Shift left-click. Boundaries of Controls 1, 2 and 3 show.
  4. Select Control 4 with Shift left-click. Boundaries of all selected controls show.
Chris Haslam commented on 25.06.2011 02:56

I observe that, when selecting controls by dragging a rectangle:

  1. In Koda, a control that is partly in the rectangle and partly outside it is selected.
  2. In Visual Basic, for a control to be selected, it must be completely within the rectangle.

I am happy with both rules; they both have advantages and disadvantages.

I am wondering whether it would be easier for you to code selection of controls within a group, without selecting the whole group, if Koda used Rule 2 above.

Just wondering.

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