Wish Designer - CTRL-A Select all views

[LucaMs]

Pressing Ctrl+A doesn't select all views.

For example, if I have a Panel containing several views, pressing those keys while focusing on the base selects only the Panel; even if the Panel has focus, the views it contains aren't selected.

 

[aeric]

Maybe I don't understand what you mean.
If you copy or move the panel, the children views will follow.

 

[LucaMs]

Maybe I don't understand what you mean.
If you copy or move the panel, the children views will follow.

I'd like to select all and only the views within the panel. Imagine a chessboard: you want to select all and only the 64 squares.

 

[aeric]

Eg. PnlChessBoard contains 64 small square panels.
Clicking PnlChessBoard will select PnlChessBoard + 64 panels = 65 views selected
But you want to exclude PnlChessBoard (64 views) ?

 

[LucaMs]

Eg. PnlChessBoard contains 64 small square panels.
Clicking PnlChessBoard will select PnlChessBoard + 64 panels = 65 views selected
But you want to exclude PnlChessBoard (64 views) ?

Yes, or by clicking on the base/activity, press CTRL+ALT and exclude PnlChessBoard and other views external to the panel, keeping selected only the boxes (panels/labels/image views) inside PnlChessBoard

 

[LucaMs]

I created a simplified test layout and noticed that CTRL+A ALWAYS and ONLY selects the top-level views, those in the "Activity." In short, it's not recursive.

 

[aeric]

You can use combination of Ctrl or Shift key plus mouse click to select the views at the views tree.