Is it possible to select object without fully selection area on it?

[TonyEnpress]

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.
 

 

Edited March 19, 2020 by TonyEnpress

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Tony.

Check your Designer Preferences:

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[TonyEnpress]

19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Tony.

Check your Designer Preferences:

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

Edited March 19, 2020 by TonyEnpress

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome, Tony. 

But I just got there first

[Annabella_K]

Thanks Walt, just what I was looking for! I wish we could switch it with a button, depending on what works best in each case.

[MEB]

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.

[Annabella_K]

Thanks MEB, this is awesome 😄

[kaffeeundsalz]

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.

[Annabella_K]

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  

[R C-R]

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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[MEB]

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.

[tropilio]

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...).