Hi Jörg, 1. TOUGH TEST CASE ================= I have designed a new test case, a *very tough* one.
What will happen if one object is *hidden* by an *overlapping object*?In this situation almost all methods will fail. While this scenario looks improbable, you can easily create it by:
- selecting a number of objects - grouping them - add new objects which will overlap one/some of the grouped objects - now if you select the group, some hidden objects will be selected as well - BUT this hidden objects are difficult to visualizeUsing my method with arrows: allocate a *different color* to the arrow pointing the hidden object, to show that *NOT* the foreground object is selected, BUT one hidden behind the visible object. - the arrows should be pointed toward the center of the visible surface of selected objects - IF this surface is very small (or non-existing) => point toward the actual center AND use a different colour
2. REVERSE MASK ===============The user can select in Photoshop to view the selection mask. However, this makes the selected objects hard to see. This is common to all filling masks, so here is another interesting idea:
Why do not draw an overlay on all objects that are *NOT* selected? (instead of those selected) This way the user has a perfect view of the selection: both size and colours are accurately visualised.
Hope you find these ideas intresting. Kind regards, Leonard Mada
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