Improve capability to select overlaying and/or nearby items

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=Now= 
Selecting one or more items (latter by holding ctrl-key) has always been a 
tedious task when items are located tight together or even overlaying or 
interlaced (e.g. composites). Often the only way to select item(s) in such 
situations is 

In my impression above went even worse with recent release 11.5. May this be 
true?

=Idea for improvement=
Umlet should take the z-order into account in some way. If I'm not mistaken 
then the good old Coral Draw and also at least some of Microsoft's drawing 
tools (Powerpoint, Visio) make a difference in selecting while the Alt-Key is 
pressed: While Alt-Key is pressed the user can click through the z-order from 
item 'on top' down to item 'on bottom'. 

=Compromise between '''simple&fast''' and amount of features=
I know that one of the main design principles of Umlet is to be '''simple''' 
and '''lightweight'''. Maybe my drawings became too big to be used in Umlet and 
that's the reason why I'm running into above problem(s). I don't want to push 
you guys to make Umlet too complicated and heavy. By the way: I could encourage 
also colleagues to use Umlet for their design sketches, because Umlet is really 
cool!

Best regards and thank's for the great work,
Alex

Original issue reported on code.google.com by alexande...@googlemail.com on 4 May 2012 at 5:13

• Merged into: #32

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Thanks for the comment and suggestion. I will merge this issue into Issue 32 
(because it's the same topic)

You're right in 11.5 is a bug which results in buggy selection, but it has been 
fixed in r164.

Original comment by AFDiaX on 19 May 2012 at 8:40

• Changed state: Duplicate

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Original comment by AFDiaX on 30 May 2012 at 7:59

• Added labels: UMLet-11.5.1