Shape Tools: Shape deselected after creation

[A_B_C]

Hi there,

I’m pretty sure it hasn’t been that way before: when you draw a shape with one of the shape tools, for instance, with the rectangle tool, the newly created shape isn’t selected after you lift the mouse button. This is a productivity impairment. For what would you like to do after having drawn a shape? — Right! You want to style it. So it should be selected automatically.

Please, if that’s by design: could you please change it? 🙂

Thank you,

Alex

[walt.farrell]

I think that Context Toolbar option may have come with 1.9.

[A_B_C]

Oh my goodness, Walt! Thank you so much. Now I am feeling embarrassed, and rightly so. 😳

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome. No need to feel embarrassed, as we've all probably missed things; I know that I certainly have  

[R C-R]

On 9/1/2021 at 2:27 AM, A_B_C said:

Now I am feeling embarrassed, and rightly so.

Why? IMO, the option is not well named. I think its function would be more obvious if it was named "Keep object selected," or even just "Keep selected." 

Maybe it is just me, but when I first saw that option I wondered what "new object' it referred to.

[MikeTO]

Why would you want to create an object and not have it selected after creation? I'd never noticed this feature until now, it seems rather unusual.

[R C-R]

28 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Why would you want to create an object and not have it selected after creation?

I'm not sure I remember this correctly but I think some users were asking for this because they were having problems creating new objects when they wanted to start dragging out the next shape object from anywhere on the just-created object's bounding box. When the first object remains selected you can't do that because placing the pointer over or near the edges or control handles of its bounding box activates one of the transform functions (move, rescale, rotate).

[MikeTO]

25 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I'm not sure I remember this correctly but I think some users were asking for this because they were having problems creating new objects when they wanted to start dragging out the next shape object from anywhere on the just-created object's bounding box. When the first object remains selected you can't do that because placing the pointer over or near the edges or control handles of its bounding box activates one of the transform functions (move, rescale, rotate).

Understood, thanks.