[Qgis-user] qgis 1.6 select tool

[Ramon Andinach]

On 21/11/2010, at 17:06 , Micha Silver wrote:

> On 21/11/2010 10:59, Ramon Andinach wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm having some odd behaviour with the select tool in 1.6.
>> 
>> While I can click-select individual objects, I don't seem to be able to click-drag select groups of objects as I used to be able to in 1.5.
> Caught me also. There is a whole set of select options now in 1.6. Do you see a tiny arrow in the corner of the select button? If you click and *hold* the select button, you get a  dropdown list of select function. You can either "click select" (one feature), select by rectangle, select by freehand drawing (which is a really cool option that I haven't seen in any other program!) and select by radius.
> 
>> This is on a win7 64bit install via osgeo.
>> 
>> I feel I am missing something obvious?
>> 
>> -ramon._______________________________________________


Ta-dah! Something blindingly obvious.

Thanks Micha.