[Bf-committers] Why must sync selection be disabled to select UV islands?

[Gaia]

I made a simple experiment:

- i select "keep UV selection in sync"
- then use the rubber band tool to select an UV island

As a result i get the related vertices selected on the 3D View,
just as expected. AND i also get all UV vertices selected
which belong to other UV islands, which i also expect because
i have actually chosen to keep UV in Sync with 3dView...

Now here is my problem with your argumentation:
If you say, the selection by UV Island is "wrong and unusable",
what makes it ok to have the rubber band selector available,
which actually "suffers" from the same issues?

-gaia-

On 18.03.2015 10:16, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
> because selecting an island will also select its vertices, and those
> vertices can belong to other uv islands, and if you select those
> vertices you'll have to select uv vertices on other islands as well.
> Ergo, you either select more islands - which makes the tool useless,
> or you leave your selection state invalid.
>
> On 18 March 2015 at 08:02, gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would be surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but finding old
>> stuff on the mailing list isn't easy..
>>
>> Anyway, trying to select UV islands with L while sync selection is
>> enabled gives the error "Cannot select linked when sync selection is
>> enabled".
>> Why must sync selection be disabled? I can't think of any obvious reason
>> why there would be a conflict of some sort.. As a matter of fact this
>> seems like it would be a really useful ability.
>>
>> Is there some technical limitation which prevents this?
>>
>> --
>> -gandalf3
>>
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