Is there a way to select objects within a group with mouse?

[Tyson of the Northwest]

In Designer, I have a custom grid in a group, so hundreds of nearly identical lines. I need to be able to mass select with one of the tools and not by walking through the layers. Is there a way for me to select grouped items with a click and drag?

[carl123]

What Affinity applications do you have?

and do you want to select all layers in the group or do you want a pixel selection of all layers in the group?

i.e. what do you want to do next once you have done your selection?

 

[Tyson of the Northwest]

Whoops, sorry Affinity Designer. I don't think I want pixel selection, I want to select a subset of the items in the group and then change their brush style/color.

[m.vlad]

Not sure if that's what you're looking for but if you hold Ctrl, clicking on an object will select the specific object that's under your mouse, no matter how many groups deep it is.

[Tyson of the Northwest]

Yeah, but I have hundreds of objects I want to delete in the group. so individually ctrl clicking is not an option. So far what I have done is lock everything but the group, ungroup them, make the mass changes, and regroup them. It is a bit messy, but somewhat functional.