Odd selection hangup

[Richard Gaskin]

DunbarX wrote:
> Someone on one of the forums ("Tal") asks why when one has the following
> code in an object:
>
> on selectedObjectChanged
>     set the selected of me to "false"
> end selectedObjectChanged
>
> one can click on the object when in edit mode, and the object will
> obligingly deselect itself.
>
> But if one drags a selection rectangle to the object, it "seems" like it
> remains selected. The handles linger. Operation is otherwise normal, though I
> am sure I have seen the text in a field under this condition pretty well
> locked up.
>
> It got better.
>
> The handles will stick, not forever, but it is not clear to me what I need
> to to do to get it deSelected, though I have, by fooling around and
> navigation and stuff, gotten rid of them. Closing the stack does it.

A simpler and more reliable method of preventing an object from being 
selected is to turn on the object's cantSelect property.

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