[josm-dev] Selecting objects by bounding box

[Rick Collins]

At 12:45 PM 11/17/2007, Michael Kugelmann wrote:
>Matthias Julius schrieb:
> > I would love to see that in JOSM. It would help to select all objects
> > that affect a certain area.
> >
>Hmmmm....
>I don't like that very much, because simetime you have to select from
>left to rigt or from right to left as JOSM went to modeless (othewise
>e.g. unwanted nodes are selected). What about a "modifier key"?

There must be something I missed.  Dragging the mouse creates a 
box.  It doesn't matter if you go right to left or left to right, it 
is the same box.  Why do you need to draw the box one way or the 
other to prevent "unwanted" nodes?

Actually, it would be nice to have the ability to select items by 
polygon.  Many drawing packages have that as working with free form 
shapes often does not match well with selecting with rectangles.  But 
the merging of select groups makes it all work pretty well.  However, 
I do see the utility of inclusive vs. exclusive selection boxes.

Rick