The "direct selection" tool should not move the whole object; only the "move tool" should do this; or it should be an option
While using the "Direct Selection Tool" it moves the whole object sometimes
Please make it an option to disable this feature.
It should only move the anchor point. Since the points are small and in a complex document it causes a lot of mistakes. I have to do undo may times to reverse this. There is "Move tool" That should only move the object. Sometimes It causes unintentional changes in the documents That I do not want to make.
Please make this an option in the settings
Thank You!
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Qaisar Nawaz
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This! 1000x this!
Long time ago I've lost count how many times I had to undo after the Direct Selection selected all the anchors of an object instead of only those I actually wanted to modify.
This behaviour is especially annoying when doing some precise work while zoomed-in really close, only to find out later that the rest of the object moved all along the modified anchors.
Please, in such case at least create some sort of a cue for the user that the tool selected everything.Anyway, to me it defies logic - if I want to move/modify the whole object I'd simply use "regular" Selection Tool(V), not the Direct Selection(A).
If "changing the legacy behaviour" is the main concern for not implementing this, couldn't it at least be added as an option to enable/disable?EDIT: Upon examining this further, I've found out that the Direct Selection Tool selects all of the object's anchors when clicking inside of an object.
Having complex art with overlapping objects on a single or multiple overlapping layers you often simply have to zoom-in very close to select only what you want(mainly because AI doesn't have a quick way to "Deselect" that is SEPARATED from "Add to Selection" functionality). Then again, if you even narrowly miss the anchor(or path segment) you want, the whole object gets selected and since you are zoomed-in, seeing only some of its anchors, you have no clue about that.To me it would make much more sense if the selection of the whole objects would be exclusive to regular Selection Tool and Direct Selection Tool could only select parts of the objects(anchors and then possibly also individual path segments - i.e. only their anchors).
If selecting and then directly modifying members of a group with Direct Selection Tool is the problem for changing this, then why we already have a dedicated Group Selection Tool? Shouldn't it be used just for that?