Refine Selection: Make Preview mode live

[Corgi]

Minor suggestion:

Presently, when using the Refine Selection tool, in order to change the Preview mode the user has to click on the Overlay drop-down, then click on the new Preview mode to see its effect. This is okay, but in cases where I'm not sure which Preview mode is best, it's clumsy since it involves a lot of clicking.

In the spirit of live previewing, it would seem better to allow the user to click-drag or mouseover up and down the drop-down field to instantly observe the different Preview options before committing to a choice. Previewing the Preview mode, if you will.

[carl123]

I like that idea.

But for now, you can use the right and left arrows to cycles through the various preview modes. Which is quicker than using the drop-down

 

[GarryP]

If you have a clickable scroll wheel on your mouse then you can put the mouse pointer over the Preview drop-down, hold the scroll wheel down, and then flick the wheel forward/backward to scroll through the available options.
(It works for me and I don’t think I’ve used any ‘fancy’ mouse software to make it happen.)

I realise that not everyone has a clickable scroll wheel, or maybe even a scroll wheel, so this isn’t a solution for everyone.

Note: While the Preview field has focus you can also press the up/down arrows to run through the options.

[Corgi]

Thanks, @carl123 and @garryp.

At least on my system (Windows 10, v2), in order to use the arrow keys or mouse wheel to run through the Preview modes, I need to first click on the word "Preview" or click once or twice on an option to activate the field. So although those are easy workarounds, they're not clean or obvious (at least, to me :-))

Also, in experimenting, I see what might be a bug. When the Refine Section dialog opens, if I immediately hit an arrow key (before clicking on anything), the main window selection preview disappears and the dialog box becomes inoperative. If anyone can reproduce this, I'll submit a bug report. UPDATE: I can't reproduce this at will in v2, only in v1, so maybe it was UBD. Never mind.