CC3, Can't seem to select anything.

[clucko]

Hello! I just started using CC3 and I'm afraid I might've messed something up.

At first, everything worked alright and I seemed to make progress good enough, however after trying to select a few mountain pieces to go behind a few other mountain pieces I seem to have lost the ability to select anything. I can't move things, I can't erase thing, I can't select anything at all.

I've tried messing around with the layers and the sheets but, to no avail. I've tried using the "Enable left button pre-selection" option a few times. I've restarted the program, I've opened new maps, and loaded old ones.

I can place things just fine and I can change size on them and such when placing them, I just can't do anything at all that requires selecting the pieces.

(Also, as a side note, is there anyway to select text after you've placed it to then try to bring it in front or behind other pieces? Wondering in case I can get this working again.)

[waldronate]

I really wish that the "Enable left button pre-selection" option wasn't there. It tends to give people the impression that you can do this:

1) Select item(s).
2) Directly manipulate control points to move, scale, rotate, etc. the selected entities as in most vector art programs.

Concept 2 doesn't really exist in CC3. There is another step in there that you have to perform to tell the system that you're done selecting things: You still have to right-click and then select "Do It". Just trying to use a command makes it seem like something should be happening, but it doesn't. So...

MOVE with standard CC3 operations:
1) MOVE command
2) Select item(s).
3) Right-click and "Do It".

MOVE with "Enable left button pre-selection" CC3 operations:
1) Select item(s).
2) Right-click and "Do It".
3) MOVE command

Not much more helpful, in my opinion. To make things more confusing, some popular commands like "Fractalize" don't respond to the "Enable left button pre-selection" operations AT ALL.

I've been told that if I'm willing to complain about it, I should be willing to fix it. I don't think that I will follow that advice in this case, though. I'll just hope that particular feature disappears without a trace from the documentation...

[Mark Oliva]

I've been told that if I'm willing to complain about it, I should be willing to fix it. I don't think that I will follow that advice in this case, though. I'll just hope that particular feature disappears without a trace from the documentation...

Oh ... gee golly whillikers, Joe! C'mon and program it out in CC3+!

[waldronate]

I took out a couple of commands this week already and I don't want to push my luck.

[Mark Oliva]

Well, that's wise enough too, I suppose.