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FS#889 - Filter the current selection to only include entities of a certain type
Opened by Roland Schwanzer (Olly) - Friday, 16 August 2013, 08:44 GMT+2
Last edited by Andrew (andrew) - Monday, 02 December 2013, 23:20 GMT+2
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The property editor should do,
Der Eigenschaften Editor sollte wenn die |
Please note that this would prevent other use cases of the property editor. A user might for example:
Since this suggestion would destroy the original selection, this use case would no longer be possible.
I think the use case of wanting to 'filter the current selection to only include entities of a certain type' should be a separate tool. Using the property editor for this might seem logical for users who are using the property editor a lot. However, a new user who wants to reduce an existing selection to only include circles will likely not look in the property editor for such a tool. The tool should be accessible through the selection menu instead.
Yes I can see an advantage of having an extra selection tool to select - by 'entity type', a tool like this would be be most useful if you needed to select e.g. Circles from a whole bunch of other entities either on the same/different layers !
How about a new selection tool that offers a working sequence something like:
1.First select initial entity type.
2.Then choose either:
- select all within range (all Circles of all sizes).
Or select
- select all with same properties.
For me at the moment if I am in this situation I am using either the 'selection widget' (by smf) or I simply select all and use the property editor to filter the selection and put on a new layer.
Yep - I agree with both of you. An extra selection tool would be nice!