Selecting Objects

In Edit Mode, objects may be selected simply by clicking on them. Objects may also be selected in mass by dragging a selection rectangle around them with the mouse. If you press and hold the mouse button in an empty area of a View Window or Child Window and move the mouse while holding the button down, a selection rectangle will be drawn. Any objects wholly or partially within the rectangle when you release the mouse button will become selected.

Paint Mode, Wire Mode and Control Mode have a "floating selection". When there is previously no object selected in a View Window or Child Window, the object under the mouse cursor becomes selected. Clicking on an object while "floating selection" is in effect does not select the object. In Control Mode clicking on an object allows you to gesture the object. To select multiple objects in these modes or to temporarily disable the "floating selection", use the selection rectangle method or click while holding the Shift or Ctrl key.

A selection may be augmented by holding the Shift or Ctrl key while selecting additional objects with either the clicking or dragging methods.

The selection state of an object or objects may be toggled by holding the Ctrl key while either clicking on or dragging around the object(s).

The menu item Edit | Select All or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A can be used to select all objects in the window with Input Focus.

Not all types of Objects are selectable in all Modes. Restrictions are as follows:

Mode	Restriction
Control Mode	Only Control Objects may be selected.
Edit Mode	All objects except wires and external nodes (nodes on the outside of a Block Object) may be selected.
Wire Mode	Blocks, wires and nodes (both internal and external) may be selected. Control Objects and Graphic Objects cannot be selected in Wire Mode.
Paint Mode	All objects except nodes (both internal and external) may be selected.