Select and Deselect in 2D View

[mlohrey]

A couple of minor bugs.

1. Nice option to choose how you prefer to make selections in 2D view. It works perfectly for single clicks but not for dragging to select. Dragging to select constantly adds selections and ignores whether you choose to add selections or not.

2. If you use the scroll wheel (say to move up and down the filters list in the colour picker) while over the top of 2d or 3d view window, the window changes magnification.

I must admit I find scrolling to magnify a bit of a pain. It would a good option to move to a modifier key or turn on/off. Also it would be more intuitive if the zooming was centred on where the mouse was pointing. I assume on a tablet etc this zooming would be a pinch type gesture focused on the location of the fingers

Cheers
Mark

[mcallegari]

1. Nice option to choose how you prefer to make selections in 2D view. It works perfectly for single clicks but not for dragging to select. Dragging to select constantly adds selections and ignores whether you choose to add selections or not.

Please elaborate with exactly the steps to see what you've seen.

2. If you use the scroll wheel (say to move up and down the filters list in the colour picker) while over the top of 2d or 3d view window, the window changes magnification.

I assume you're on macOS (?)
This is related to one of those "nasty bugs" I found in Qt before releasing. I mentioned this in the release announcement.
The choice was between: mouse wheel fixed among contexts (this one you reported) or 3D items not clickable and a segfault on exit.
I think I had no option here...

[mlohrey]

Sorry, Massimo, I will try and explain the observed behaviour more carefully.

If the 'toggle multiple item selection' button isn't pressed, then each time you click another fixture the previous one or ones are deselected. This is as expected. However if you drag select some and then drag select some others, the original selected fixtures remain selected. I would expect in this mode that the original selection would not hold so to be consistent with the single click behaviour.

Eg. If you have 8 fixtures and drag select the first 3 to select them and then drag select the last 3 fixtures. The last 3 are selected and the original 3 remain selected. I would have thought the original three would deselect once a new dragged selection was made.

Yes, on MacOS. Sorry forgot to mention that.

Hopefully the bugs in Qt will be sorted out in the future. My workaround is to move the object off the affected background.

[mcallegari]

Eg. If you have 8 fixtures and drag select the first 3 to select them and then drag select the last 3 fixtures. The last 3 are selected and the original 3 remain selected. I would have thought the original three would deselect once a new dragged selection was made.

Ah, yes, you're right ! That is unexpected and actually easy to fix.
Thanks for reporting.

[EDIT] fixed on GIT