(Sorry for the duplicate, Wayne. This time I replied all.)
I much prefer that the selected objects remain selected. If the selection took
precision, especially for multi-object additive multiple selection, then having
to reselect even a subset is arduous. The addition of the extra "Esc" key
requirement is reduced because it is pressing the *same* key, where your hand
already is on the keyboard.
On Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:22 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I've finally forced myself to start using the GAL canvas for new
projects and I immediately ran into an unexpected behavior regarding
context menus. If I right click on an object, it gets selected and the
context menu for that object is shown as expected. If I change my mind
and close the context menu with the escape key, the context menu
disappears. So far so good but here is where things get ugly. The
object from the canceled context menu is still selected so if I move the
cursor to a different object and right click, the context menu from the
previously (still) selected object appears and selecting a command from
the context menu will be performed on the object at the first right
click position rather than the object the cursor is currently over.
This seems broken to me. I have to hit the escape key a second time to
deselect the initial object selection. Is this the behavior we really
want? I would expect that the initial object would have been deselected
when I aborted the context menu (or performed a command on the selected
object) so the next right click would select the new object. With the
current behavior, I have to hit the escape key a second time to deselect
the original selection. Anyone who has been following the dev mailing
list for any amount of time knows how much I dislike additional steps to
accomplish a task. This falls under that category in a big way. Can
this be changed to mimic the behavior of the legacy canvas? If so, I
will file a bug report. If not, we need to discuss this before I am
willing to kick the legacy canvas to the curb.
Cheers,
Wayne
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