Difficult to modify selections

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.select some pixels
2.attempt to add another individual pixel to the selection that is near one of 
the hulls in the marquee tool

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect to be able to expand (or de-select) a given pixel without 
experiencing interference from the current selection. At the moment if the 
cursor is too close to one of the 8 points in the marquee tool you may find 
that the mouse would rather let you scale or rotate the selection instead of 
allowing you to add or remove pixels from the selection.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Windows 7 x64 v0.9.5

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Maybe it would make more sense to use a modifier key (shift/alt) when in 
marquee mode to expand or contract a selection rather than using the left/right 
mouse buttons? this way, it could trigger a change in the behavior of the 
marquis tool to not force a scaling/rotating behaviour.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by st...@sprixelsoft.com on 5 Mar 2013 at 11:48

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I'd also appreciate it if there could be universal add/remove from selection 
with the shift/alt key combination for *all* selection modes- meaning 
magic-wand too. Rather than having to click the [+] or [-] buttons at the top 
of the work area.

A "paint selection" option would also be extremely helpful- where it uses the 
current pencil size to select/deselect, so you could easily just "draw" minor 
selection additions rather than trying to lasso it.

Original comment by jonathan...@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2014 at 10:50

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This issue is quite tricky. Several things:

1) The current default behavior (as in v1.0) is the most MS Paint-like 
behavior, which I think is quite useful and handy (and familiar?) most of the 
time. So we don't have to lost this flexibility.

2) Anyway, it looks like having scale/rotate handles visible/enabled all the 
time is not friendly in some situations. There is another related issue to this 
one (issue 370) to show the rotation pivot by default, I think that we need a 
button/configuration in the context bar to switch the visibility of all 
transformation handles by default.

3) I will try to add some keyboard modifiers to enable those "universal" 
add/remove selection modes. Something similar to Photoshop.

4) About the "paint selection", it's already possible configuring it in the 
<tools> section of gui.xml (anyway it's too internal stuff). There were an 
intermediate beta version that included a special ink mode for any tool to 
paint selection with any tool. I've to figure out how to make this accessible 
in a easy way (an "Advanced" button for sure).

Original comment by davidcapello on 6 Jul 2014 at 1:21

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Milestone-1.0

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Issue 370 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by davidcapello on 6 Jul 2014 at 1:22

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Original comment by davidcapello on 17 Jul 2014 at 2:27

• Added labels: Component-UI-SpriteEditor