Xara: suggestion???_"[Esc] Key"
I have a new suggestion (no doubt no one else will like it) but here goes:
I think it would be nice if esc also deselected tools...
Presently when you select a tool and then press esc nothing happens....
Which is ok but currently there is no way to have no tool selected!
IE as the select tool is active by default ETC....
This is not a big deal but there would be an advantage that many of you may not have considered to having this be the case:
Xara has an active content bar...(this is my terminology) that thing that changes and serves up tools and setting to suit the situation....
(Which is great by the way)
Allowing [Esc] to deselect tools would mean that when you pressed [Esc] (When no object was selected but when a tool was active) it would deselect the currently active tool and actually leave you with no tool selected....
In this case the active content bar could then serve up options related not to any specific tool but rather the workspace itself....
IE 1)weather or not to display that print page box....
2) print orientation
3) grid off and rulers off and on...
ETC ETC
P.S I know there is already ways to access these things...
But the active content bar could be updated in this way to be of more use...
And considering that [Esc] currently does nothing when you simply select a tool it would not impact on current methods.
But it would provide one button access to common and useful setting applicable to the workspace generally via the "active content bar" with this small change.
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