The concept of vector graphics is different from raster, you don't select area on screen or one layer but you select objects.

You can select multiple objects by dragging with your mouse around them, starting on empty space.

You can also use Alt with mouse drag and all objects you touch while dragging will be selected.

All this is done when in Select tool

Read more here http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... elect.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIhNLkzBthE

as the movie shows is that Corel Illustretor have the freedom of selection that is useful to select specific vertices or objects you want to avoid those who do not want but can not be avoided by selecting elliptical that moving objects or take more vertices, so that profits ? for example, to the flowers of a sunflower selecting the leaves but leaving the rest if pollen select objects with a line like the rubber when it clears (inkscape devede), select whether you are a do two laps seeds and I think it's best to that you add this option has illustretor Draw and equip itself with the properties of objects and selection as top brush (like the rubber in Inkscape devede) area and selection of objects or vertices (which selects the area enclosed) this is the my opinion! so would make it "very good" ...

Looks useful. Feel free to request it officially.

intend to or already lanchpad here is official?
however, the request ...

00synfig wrote:intend to or already lanchpad here is official?
however, the request ...

Yeah, Launchpad is the way to request features officially.

Oooww I was going to ask for something like this, but I thought I'd be the only one who wanted it. I had a bunch of small petal like paths that I wanted to made into a coffee steam like swirl. There were 16 different kinds of petals that I wanted in a random looking distribution too. I did some stuff with pattern a long path. Using me a as random number generator for the tangential offset, but it was a lot of trail and error.

I did not want to use clip object or a pattern in the fill menu because it would clip off sections of the petals and look funny. So eventually I decided it was faster to use the Align and Distribute > Randomize on a few hundred petal. And delete by hand using the rectangular drag and select to delete the ones I did not want.

I was thinking it would be useful to have something like a boolean select. Like take a path and be able to select all paths that it contained or excluded or it came in contact with etc. I have no idea how hard or easy that would be to code.

EarlyBlake wrote:I was thinking it would be useful to have something like a boolean select. Like take a path and be able to select all paths that it contained or excluded or it came in contact with etc. I have no idea how hard or easy that would be to code.

It's important to note that if you hold Alt whilst using you can select whole object by drawing a path over them. 00synfig has requested something a little different in that he wants to free-select nodes within an object, not whole objects within a drawing.

I did not understand the request (surely some auto-translation involved?) - What would be the differnence to selecting nodes while holding Shift?

loonquawl wrote:What would be the differnence to selecting nodes while holding Shift?

You can only grab a selection within a rectangle area. If you watch the YT video linked above you'll see exactly what 00Inkscape means.

But you can also add any single point to an existing selection while holding shift,and in the video, mostly only two adjacent points are selected by drawing a circle around them, which is not at all faster than simply selecting those individually while holding shift.

I don't know if this can help but in Inkscape you can select nodes closest to the chosen node by using your mouse wheel while hovering over the node. It's another way of selecting the nodes quickly and with precision.

microUgly wrote:

EarlyBlake wrote:I was thinking it would be useful to have something like a boolean select. Like take a path and be able to select all paths that it contained or excluded or it came in contact with etc. I have no idea how hard or easy that would be to code.

It's important to note that if you hold Alt whilst using you can select whole object by drawing a path over them. 00synfig has requested something a little different in that he wants to free-select nodes within an object, not whole objects within a drawing.

Would that mean drawing a new path for each select? I'd like to use an existing path.

Also is there a way to deselect nodes in inkscape? The way you can deselect stuff in gimp by hitting with the shift key held down?

EarlyBlake wrote:Would that mean drawing a new path for each select?

Yeah that's right. I was only suggesting it as a practical method that can be used now.

EarlyBlake wrote:Also is there a way to deselect nodes in inkscape? The way you can deselect stuff in gimp by hitting with the shift key held down?

I wonder if this is an oversight. You can deselect whilst holding Shift, but you need to click the nodes individually instead of being able to use a selection area.

I just looked at the video. It looked like that was a simple mesh vector kind of like this: http://vector.tutsplus.com/articles/new ... -tomatoes/ (or this long one http://pruz.deviantart.com/art/Tutorial ... g-80896472 ) Only with a lot fewer "sections" defined. Seems like mesh vectoring is the next big thing in vectoring. It looks like an alternative to "shaped" gradients. I find the images made with mesh vectoring kind of creep sometimes, but if they are a step closer to non linear/elliptical gradients. Think it will get look at for inkscape?

EarlyBlake wrote:Also is there a way to deselect nodes in inkscape? The way you can deselect stuff in gimp by hitting with the shift key held down?

I wonder if this is an oversight. You can deselect whilst holding Shift, but you need to click the nodes individually instead of being able to use a selection area.[/quote]

I volunteer you to write it up