[Question] Trigger drag selection based on pressed key

[GRX]

Hi,

I'd like to know 2 things, 1; Is it possible to only initiate the drag select when (for ex;) the meta key is pressed? 2; Since nested components cannot be grabbed with a dragged selection, is it possible to get the start/end coordinates of the mouse when a selection has been made? (for ex; x10,y10 -> x15,y30)

[d3lm]

Hey! To both of your points:

1: No, this is unfortunately not possible but can easily be added. I am happy to accept a PR for this to make it configurable.

2: You could get hold of the selectItem instance you're interested in and call getBoundingClientRect which will give you the coordinates of that single item if that's any helpful. But I think we want to tackle the nested component use case in general. If you wanna help, I'd be down to assist you and discuss possible solutions.

[GRX]

Hi, sorry to take me this long to come back to you, the project I've been working on kind of died but I'm trying to revive it.

For point 1: frankly, I don't think I'm skilled enough to write such implementation. For point 2: I sadly can't getBoundClientRect from a selected item, because the items that I need are in a nested component. But I wrote a basic function that can get the right elements based on starting/ending XY (pixel)coordinates.

If I can get just the XY starting positions from the bounding box after dragging, I'll be forever grateful :)