Selecting UI controls

There are a few different ways to select UI controls.

  • Clicking on a UI control selects it
  • Dragging a rectangle which encloses many UI controls selects them
  • SHIFT+ CLICK on a control adds it to the selection
  • CTRL/+ CLICK on a selected control removes it from the selection
  • Hold ALT to ignore items behind the mouse and drag-select

When you select a control, you'll see it enclosed in a blue rectangle with handles at the edges and corners.

To add a control that is behind another control to the selection, right-click on the top control and hold down SHIFT to bring up a menu that allows you to add controls behind it.


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