[REQ] un-select everything
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@unknownuser said:
Funny how people can be talking about the same thing and not notice.
massimo did notice.
@massimo said:
@krisidious said:
Esc does work and I use it often... But something to exit out of all groups and unselect everything back to the top of the model hierarchy would be nice.
This works like a charm.
That's what led me to turn Jim's code into backout.rb
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@bob james said:
@unknownuser said:
Funny how people can be talking about the same thing and not notice.
massimo did notice.
@massimo said:
@krisidious said:
Esc does work and I use it often... But something to exit out of all groups and unselect everything back to the top of the model hierarchy would be nice.
This works like a charm.
That's what led me to turn Jim's code into backout.rb
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding the issue but in the shortcuts menu there is an option for 'deselect all' This doesn't 'back out' like the escape key but does exactly what it says.
I have it set as 'shift D'Baz
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@baz said:
This doesn't 'back out' like the escape key
That's the whole point of this discussion. Deselecting something buried within a component/group still leaves you inside the group/component. Backout deselects and brings the cursor all the way out of the group/component leaving you free to select something else in your model.
By the way:,I can't find this:
@unknownuser said:
but in the shortcuts menu there is an option for 'deselect all'
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Thanks:I was looking for 'deselect all'
@unknownuser said:
but in the shortcuts menu there is an option for 'deselect all'
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@bob james said:
Thanks:I was looking for 'deselect all'
@unknownuser said:
but in the shortcuts menu there is an option for 'deselect all'
my bad
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@gilles said:
@jeff hammond said:
are we talking about exiting groups or un-selecting selected items?
i'll read back through the thread a little later.Both.
what if you aren't editing inside a group (raw geometry) and you have some items selected? will ESC deselect those items? i've tried it on a macpro and a mbp now and it works on neither. for that, i have to use the 'select none' shortcut.
(though the way i usually do this when there is no blank space to click in is to select a new item which i can see then shift-select it in order to clear all selections.. just i bad habit i've developed over the years where i should probably be using the shift-cmmd-A shortcut) -
@jeff hammond said:
@gilles said:
@jeff hammond said:
are we talking about exiting groups or un-selecting selected items?
i'll read back through the thread a little later.Both.
what if you aren't editing inside a group (raw geometry) and you have some items selected? will ESC deselect those items? i've tried it on a macpro and a mbp now and it works on neither. for that, i have to use the 'select none' shortcut.
(though the way i usually do this when there is no blank space to click in is to select a new item which i can see then shift-select it in order to clear all selections.. just i bad habit i've developed over the years where i should probably be using the shift-cmmd-A shortcut)Yes this works, I' running Mountain lion Mac book pro SU V8.
As I said before ESC does not deselect with some tools when they are active.
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@gilles said:
Yes this works, I' running Mountain lion Mac book pro SU V8.
As I said before ESC does not deselect with some tools when they are active.
well.. that's just strange (tried it in su8 too on lion and mavericks-- with various active tools).. i'm sure there's a reason behind the differing behaviors on our computers but i guess it's not important enough to figure out.
fwiw, i do use the ESC key often in sketchup but i use it as a cancel button while drawing (for instance, i use the line tool if i need to measure something but i ESC once i see the dimension in the measurement box.. or if i misplace the beginning click of a tool etc..)
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