Leonard Mada wrote:
Armin Le Grand wrote:Christian Lippka wrote:But Christian is right with the point that it makes no sense to change the visualisation of the object, ... It is better to think of the selection as a kind of 'overlay' as it is with the green handles.I'm very in favor of improving our current selection visualization, but I would prefer if we find a solution that does not change the appearance of the selected shapes...I did much professional graphics processing (especially with Photoshop). All programs (and methods) had their quirks.Nevertheless, I believe that a distinct border is the best solution for a selection.REASONS - an overlay often obscures the underlying objects too much- color is difficult to judge (and many visual effects depend on the specific colors) -> especially for professional graphics editing, where the end results depends on various visual effects due to the colours, this is an important aspectI would prefer a *strong border* with a *distinct color*.Alternatively, draw a number of arrows from the center of gravity of the selection towards all selected objects. This is probably more complex, but much more suggestive and allows the user to visualise the borders accurately. It is less applicable for small objects.With Overlay, we can do something similar. Think about drawing a selection shape 1/2 transparent with definable color over the shape to make it somewhat 'ghosted'As I sad, ghosted selections are more difficult to visualise. Sometimes they are useful, but often I got the impression that there is a better way to do it.
So You would be fine with e.g. the following: - Take the outline of the selected objects- Take the line width of the object, add a definable size for selected (e.g. 2 mm) - Use a dashed linestyle for it (to have spaces where the original shape's linestyle is visible)
- Draw it as selection in a definable color (selection color of the system) Optional: - draw it 50% transparent (evtl. without dashed) - animate itMaybe we should take the normal text selection case as a analogon. There, the selection is (depending on app) a x-or'ed or with selection-color painted rectangle. We also have a blinking cursor.
The analog for a draw application would be a rectangle/XOR region for each multi-selected shape.
XOR has it's own problems (gray background), so when using selection color, a text selection seems to be 'behind' the text. For text selections there is no problem, there are no chars which completely cover their selection area. This is different for shapes, so maybe the selection area needs to be a bit expanded.
This would allow to also visualize one of the multi-selected objects as 'active' object (similar to the blinking cursor). This is required for being able to change multi-selection using only keyboard (not possible ATM, but required for accessibility, see issue #i44042#). There must be a possibility to 'travel' one object of the multi-selection.
I made a document with some examples. The selection color is just for experimenting, You may change it in the sytles dialog. Attaching.
I hope for playing around with more ideas here. Be creative! -- Greetings, Armin Le Grand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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