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In the rectangle-selecting UI, give ability to "unite" multiple rectangular regions.

Open be5invis opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Snipaste has a rectangle-selecting mode, that you can directly click to decide a snapshot area. This feature is convenient, however given that many windows is separated into small pieces, when wanting to take a large window/region, it becomes inconvenient. Could snipaste include a "unite" mode (like -- holding some key) to combine multiple small rectangles, using their bounding box, to get a large window conveniently?

be5invis avatar May 21 '17 17:05 be5invis

Good idea, and we may not restrict to using the bounding box (like filling the gaps with transparent pixels).

However, it would require huge changes to my current code. So... stay tuned.

liulex avatar May 22 '17 06:05 liulex

Suggestion: after making a selection, make dragging selection edges snap to UI elements.

If I want a bounding box around two UI elements, I will select the first one and then drag a corner to expand around the second UI element. If you make it softly snap (let's say, 5px around UI element edges snaps to them) it would be easy to be precise.

This sounds more intuitive to use and might be easier to implement.

deltaidea avatar Nov 06 '25 15:11 deltaidea