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

[Gaia]

I meant Border Select (shortkey "b"), Sorry for the confusion.
Maybe the other term slipped into my memory from usage
with another tool :-[

Nevertheless i believe that selecting an island via Border select
(or Lasso select) and selecting the island by using "L" should
give identical results.

And i agree that using any select tool in vertex selection mode
might be less useful than using it in face selection mode.

cheers
gaia

On 18.03.2015 11:00, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
> "Rubber band tool"?
>
> On 18 March 2015 at 10:40, Gaia <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
>> 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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