Stokestack Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Currently, if you click on an empty (hollow, unfilled) area that's surrounded by an object, Designer will select that object. This is frequently (perhaps even usually) not what you want, especially since there can be numerous objects surrounding the empty area (thus making the selection uselessly ambiguous anyway). Currently in Designer you have to use the Option key to cycle through ALL overlapping objects. That is a deal-breaker. I find it incredible that this is deemed an acceptable way to work. How many illustrations don't have objects depicted within the boundaries of other objects? In the attached example, I can't select the blue line by clicking on it, even though nothing's covering it. Please fix this. Hokusai 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I see what you mean, but if that green box was a stroke, and the A wasn't there, then clicking on the hollow space wouldn't select anything. I'm seeing that the hollow space to filled objects and text will select those objects, but not for strokes. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Stokestack, I requested this before but it was a long time ago (probably within the first month of Designer's release) and I completely agree with you. This is important to anyone who uses a lot of Boolean operations. It is difficult and annoying to try to select what you want when there are other items on top (but they have holes or spaces cut out of them). It would be helpful if there was a preference for selecting behaviour. Hokusai Stokestack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Yes, how AD behaves now is non standard. Stokestack 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokestack Posted January 20, 2017 Author Share Posted January 20, 2017 It's not even a matter of Boolean operations. I could have also used the "combine" operation on the inside and outside curves of the green box to create the same effect. I don't see how people work with this. Do you all seriously click, click, click until you get to the object you want? And what if there's a very similarly-shaped object underlying the one you want? Then it'll look like the one you want is selected, when in reality it's the underlying one. Then you get to start your click, click, clicking all over... and what? Start counting how many clicks it takes to get to the object you want to work on? And in a complicated illustration, poring over the layer list looking for objects isn't going to help either. I'm mystified by an art program where you can't click on objects on the canvas to manipulate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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