Lasso select a Button

[bwood]

Sorry. This must be easy - but I can't find anything in help about 'lasso select the button'. It's called a 'scribble' selection I had it last night - but the select > alt is not working for me. I'm designing some buttons for a nav bar I'm designing. Apologies again - but I know it's a select with 'alt' button held down.

I wonder if there's another way to soft group this button.

-Bill

[handrawn]

afaik you hold down alt and then drag across the objects you wish to select

[gwpriester]

Just tried Alt drag with a nav bar and unless I am missing something it did not work.

If you need to make a global change, Ctrl click on the home button and change the color or text, unless you have buttons set to Adjust to labels, in that case you need to ungroup the nav bar. You will need to isolate the MouseOff layer because it will be hidden behind the MouseOver layer.

[bwood]

Just tried Alt drag with a nav bar and unless I am missing something it did not work.

If you need to make a global change, Ctrl click on the home button and change the color or text, unless you have buttons set to Adjust to labels, in that case you need to ungroup the nav bar. You will need to isolate the MouseOff layer because it will be hidden behind the MouseOver layer.

Thanks for your trouble Gary and Handrawn. I tested a single button on a different doc and select>alt worked fine. (I was practicing last night) Then tried it on this museum site I'm working on and select>alt did not work. Even with a single button for a phone variant. Thanks guys - glad there was some work around.
Not sure it didn't work though. I was reading up a web designer support paper. The lasso fooled me for a moment. Its called 'scribble select'.

-Bill

[handrawn]

no lasso tool in xara; that's a different concept; the scribble is a close as you get

[although if you are really good with the marquee select in 'adobe' mode you can build up a selection with the help of the shift key quicker that you might in normal xara mode; it depends what you are trying to do

'adobe' mode': marquee only has to cross part of an object to select
'normal' xara mode: marquee has to totally enclose the object to select

shift key toggles add/subtract to selection as normal]

[Egg Bramhill]

Not true HD:

[handrawn]

sorry egg - what is not true...?

a lasso tool is a freehand tool that automatically closes itself [with a staight line] if you do not close it yourself - xara does not have this it only has marquee [retangular] - and the scribble select which has no boundaries to close

and your screen shot shows exactly what I said about 'adobe' / 'normal for xara' marquee - or am I missing something ?

[bwood]

Alt left click drag worked on a clean page. Just can’t figure out why it didn’t work on a page. I can always copy and paste the button. Oh well. Thanks all.
W

[handrawn]

buttons are grouped ? [i'm not a webdesigner ] if so try holding alt and ctrl as you drag; you may have issues if there are soft groups, or if there are hidden/locked items in the mix..

[Egg Bramhill]

'adobe' mode': marquee only has to cross part of an object to select
'normal' xara mode: marquee has to totally enclose the object to select

It's not true that Xara doesn't have an 'adobe' mode as you call it. It has two Xara options, not an adobe option.