Selection by dragging a box?
I'm working with the program for several months now and I'm very happy with it. But one thing could be a bit better: there should be a selection possible by dragging a selection box around some items.
In my working process I often come to the point when I want to delete, for example, only some lyric words or something else, but not the entire line or all similar object (as selectable in the context menu). I have to select them all step by step while holding the CTRL key. So a selection box would be a nice feature to do that in one step. :-)
Comments
Have you tried SHIFT+dragging?
In reply to Have you tried by ChurchOrganist
No, I had no idea... that works. Is this documented anywhere, and didn't I see it?
But beside that: I think it would be better to change the panning function to SHIFT+Drag and the Selection to normal Drag. This would match the normal way to work under all popular operating systems. What do you think? :-)
In reply to No, I had no idea... that by trommeltier1975
Tough call because it depends on what you do more - move the score or drag-select elements. I find the majority of the time I am moving around the score making changes, so while shift-drag seems unintuitive, it is necessary.
In reply to No, I had no idea... that by trommeltier1975
Agreed. Moving the score around is something I think happens about 100 times more often than drag-select, so I think the current method is better suited than one that made the more commom operation harder than the less common one.