gEDA-user: deselect hidden far side objects (sf bug 1751566)

[Peter TB Brett]

On Friday 13 July 2007 06:37:29 Ben Jackson wrote:
> I'm looking into a bug I filed (1751566) where I found that if you:
>
> 1.  select some things, then
> 2.  hide some of them and then
> 3.  single click in space (or on an object) to deselect all,
>
> The hidden objects do not get deselected.  This turns out to be because
> "deselect all" is implemented as "unselect everything in this box" where
> "box" is essentially "everywhere".  "(un)select everything in this box"
> is all one function which handles drag selection as well, so when it's
> selecting it makes sense to consider visibility.
>

I've been had this way before.

+1 for fixing this bug ASAP!

                  Peter


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