Re: Visual cue for multiple selections

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:

> Hello!

[snip]

> It may be clear for 2-4 items, but may become visual hodgepodge
> if you have, say 20 items.
> As far as I remember, CorelDraw painted tiny anchor dot for
> each object selected. This may be alternative approach - there
> even is no need to choose either one, if we can make these
> configurable.

OK.  Seeing the bounding boxes of a large selection never really bothered
me, but I can see how it would be bad in some circumstances.

In order to demonstrate the idea, I've submitted a patch to the sf.net
patch tracker which puts red bounding boxes around selected items.  It's a
diff against current CVS.

I'd be interested in any thoughts.  I think the immediate to-do list is:
   1.  make it optional.
   2.  decide how to choose a colour for the item bounding boxes.
   3.  make it more efficient.

I'd be pleased to hear any comments or thoughts.

Cheers

Carl



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