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Try the lasso tool
Works better than a marque as you are not limited to only square shapes.
Say you want to select just the pink dots and not the blue ones, just drag round them like this with the lasso tool and they'll be selected on mouseup.
Ain't no picture there. Use the camera thingummy in the reply window to send pictures.
Marie wants to be able to do this, where the dotted line is your lasso selection.
I think the Lasso Tool would be a better place to put the feature rather than the direct select or the selection tool
as you can define a more random selection. and what would be great is if you could access the lasso tool when using
another tool with command l for the traditional way of selecting and option L for the way marie would also be able to select.
I bet if she visited the scripting forum she might get those guys on it and a script might work.Problem there is keyboard short cuts for scripts do not stick
so you might have to create an action invoking the script and assign keyboard to the action.
It is a very good feature and should be implemented.
Hi Wade, I scripted it the way Marie originally wanted it, by defining a "window".
keyboard short cuts for scripts do not stick
I have made a coupe of tutorials on how to run scripts via 2-clicks and shortcut key stroke for Windose. They don't involve programming, so I wonder if there are similar features on the Mac that could do something similar. Hover the mouse over my username to check those out.
#target Illustrator
// script.name = selectWithinRect.jsx;
// script.description = selects all items fully enclosed by a top most Rectangle;
// script.required = draw the "selection Marquee" Rectangle first before running;
// script.parent = carlos canto // 5/25/11;
// script.elegant = false;
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var topPath = idoc.pathItems[0];
var tpVB = topPath.visibleBounds;
var left = tpVB[0];
var top = tpVB[1];
var right = tpVB[2];
var bottom = tpVB[3];
for (i = 1 ; i<idoc.pageItems.length; i++)
{
var iart = idoc.pageItems;
if (isPointIn(top,left,bottom,right,iart) == "true")
{
iart.selected = true;
}
//alert(isPointIn(top,left,bottom,right,iart));
}
topPath.remove();
function isPointIn(top,left,bottom,right,iart)
{
var vb = iart.visibleBounds;
ileft = vb[0];
itop = vb[1];
iright = vb[2];
ibottom = vb[3];
if ( ileft>left && itop<top && iright<right && ibottom>bottom)
return "true";
else
return "false";
}
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