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I just buy the affinity designer and I think the selection tool is annoying me so much

because I have to drag selection area to cover the object to selection.

In IIlustrator, I just need to drag selection area to some part of objects to select it (dont need to fully cover). 
Yes, I know it's not Illustrator but does it have any ways to make the selection work like Illustrator?

Image1 (AD) :The selection area doesn't fully cover any objects so no object selected.
Image2: (Ai) : The selection area also doesn't full cover any objects but all objects are selected. <<<< This is what I want.

***Sorry for my bad English.
 

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Edited by TonyEnpress
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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Tony.

Check your Designer Preferences:

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-- Walt
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Posted (edited)
19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Tony.

Check your Designer Preferences:

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Thank you so much, Walt. You are my lifesaver. 🥰🥰🥰

Edited by TonyEnpress
Posted

You're welcome, Tony. 

But I just got there first :)

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

  • Staff
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Hi Annabella_K,
You can. Press and hold the right-mouse button along with the left one on Windows (or the ctrl button if you are using a Mac) to toggle between the two behaviours. So if you want to select several objects using a marquee including some not fully encompassed by it, press and hold the left mouse button, drag the marquee, press and hold the right mouse button to include the ones not fully encompassed by the marquee, and release the left button. You should end up will all objects selected.

Posted

I wonder why this seems to be such an unknown feature for so many. Could it be that they just don't read the documentation? Both what walt.farrell and MEB said is comprehensively explained in Affinity Designer's online help under Object control > selecting objects.

Posted
21 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

I wonder why this seems to be such an unknown feature for so many. Could it be that they just don't read the documentation? Both what walt.farrell and MEB said is comprehensively explained in Affinity Designer's online help under Object control > selecting objects.

Thanks for the reminder kaffeeundsalz. 👍 I watched all the videos when I started to use Publisher, but I'm so used to Googleing everything (which mostly brings up the forum for me), I totally forgot to check the help file. It really is a treasure :) 

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6 hours ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

I wonder why this seems to be such an unknown feature for so many.

Probably because lots of people like to just fire up new apps & see if they can figure out how everything works without wading through the documentation.

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  • Staff
Posted

Hi Lagarto,
We are aware the right-mouse button is not the most practical solution. It was chosen because we had limited options on Windows (one less modifier key) and wanted to keep shortcuts parity between Mac and Windows as much consistent possible like so:

Mac Command key = Windows Ctrl key
Mac Shift key = Windows Shift key
Mac Alt key = Windows Alt key
Mac Ctrl key = Windows Right Mouse button

For some operations this does indeed cause a few issues and some shortcuts were already changed/break that "convention". We are still considering changing it if we found better solution.

  • 2 years later...
Posted

Having the possibility to set a key modifier to switch between the two behaviors would be very comfortable, especially for Windows users using a touchpad with no physical buttons (like me...).

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