Option for drag select to ignore center points of objects
When selecting multiple shapes on top of a large shape, it's difficult to avoid the center point of the background shape. The current workaround is to constantly lock and unlock shapes, or shift click on different objects several times. Drag selection would be easy if it only detected the edges of shapes.
Cynthia
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@whstlblwr, my comment is both a remark for the dev team and an advise for the OP.
...but I’m curious about the 'Regardless of which button I click the centre remains visible' — really? Does not for me. Hitting the 'don’t show' button immediately eliminates centers. Can you share a short GIF or a video of this?
As for the making something a default option... alas, I’m afraid 3 votes won’t help much to force it :(
This one, with 19 votes, the one I made 5 years ago, somewhat relevant, has more chances: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/32403910-make-ability-to-create-dead-not-live-shapes
Anyway, I’ll try to raise this question when the moment is right. -
whstlblwr
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The thing that is most annoying about this, is that for 10 years it worked the way you are requesting and then it changed for some unknown reason.
I notice there is an option in the settings on the selection tab that says 'Object Selection by Path Only' but having it checked does not have the effect it describes.
I'm not sure if Egor's comment is a suggestion to the OP or to a dev that will read this thread but I see that there is a button for 'show centre' and 'don't show centre'.
Regardless of which button I click the centre remains visible when the vector object is selected HOWEVER it does stop it from being selected with a drag to select gesture. GREAT!Now how can I make it so all objects have 'Don't Show Centre' by default?
Please don't tell me it's going to be another hyphenation check box situation.
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A solution to this might be to disable center points for these objects altogether, with a dedicated button in the Attributes panel. If you need them back later, well, then you'll have to select them and enable center points back. For now there is no fast method to select live shapes back (it’s usually them to have centers), but filtering in Layers is coming soon and is already available in Beta.
As for the specific option to disable selection by centers... another modal option to confuse more users seems like a less wise choice. 'Why can’t I select an object by its center?'
No center = no selection is more honest... but then again to enable them back :/
