Select and move/copy/resize/recolor/rethicken

[edemaine]

New tool mode

• Drag to move
• Shift-drag moves orthogonally
• Selecting color changes that attribute of pen stroke
• Ditto for thickness? This is tricky to do because we don't currently store the "natural" width of a pen stroke. We should add this, and maybe replace existing w with multipliers? Then can easily change the entire stroke, relatively.
• Setting fill of selected objects
• Show bounding box of selection
• Duplicate selection via Ctrl-D
• Duplicate via button around bounding box
• Drag target (pan icon?) around bounding box for easier/more reliable dragging (don't need to exactly hit an object)
• *Via handles: Scale object (especially for images from SVG/PNG/JPG import #22) via scale transform
  • Alt to scale from center
  • Shift to scale 1:1 (maybe default if using touch? and if images and text?)
• Export of just selected objects (extension of SVG export of entire page #23)
• Copy/paste? This would be especially helpful across pages or boards.

Multiple selection styles (subtools within tool?):

• Arrow cursor-style single selection, and multiselection via shift/ctrl, is probably the starting point, as I have the selection code already.
• Drag through objects (in the same style as eraser)
  • Is there precedent for this? like a wand. Indeed, Stefan's Journal calls this "magic wand"
• Rectangle select
  • Illustrator's behavior of >0% hit is most natural...
  • Could add option for Rhino-style rectangle orientation determines >0% vs. 100%
• Lasso select (Lasso select tool (feature request) #115)
  • I'm thinking an object gets selected if >50% of the object is in the region. Or maybe 75%? Or could configure, e.g. between >0% or >50% or 100%.
  • "Down from lasso" select (for adding a line for jagged text) [in Stefan's Journal]
• Select below horizontal line (for adding a line)
• Select all (Ctrl-A)
• Select same type/color/fill/size

[achesterberg]

Thanks! I cast a vote for copy-paste as a priority.