Direct Selection in Affinity Designer

[Daxx]

 

Feature Request: Direct Selection in Affinity Designer.

This tool gives the user the ability to select a single or multiple objects within a clipping mask or a group. It can be a real time saver by bypassing the need to ungroup or unmask objects.

[fde101]

On the Mac, when using the move tool, you can do this by command-clicking on the object you want to select.  I'm not sure what the Windows key equivalent is offhand, but I do see that this is missing from the help bar across the bottom of the window, so perhaps it should be added?

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, fde101 said:

I'm not sure what the Windows key equivalent

Click with Shift.

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/select.html

 

Unfortunately, this is different than when selecting items in the Layers panel, where individual items are selected with Ctrl, and Shift selects from/to.

[fde101]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

Click with Shift.

Right answer to the wrong question. OP is looking to bypass groups, not to select multiple. 

[Pšenda]

2 hours ago, fde101 said:

OP is looking to bypass groups

So probably this option:

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_move.html

[fde101]

3 hours ago, Pšenda said:

So probably this option:

That could work, though at least on the Mac, you can bypass it with a modifier key and don't need to touch that.

[Latens]

For windows it's ctrl+click to select an object on the canvas within a group.
It's ctrl+shift+click to select multiple objects on the canvas within a group.
If you first ctrl+click an object within the group on the canvas and then just click another it will select it without the modifier.