v8 selection appearance

[Peter TB Brett]

On 03/03/2016 15:22, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I can appreciate the benefit of the dashed outline added to an object to
> further reinforces its selected state in addition to the presence of the
> selection handles, but I find it sometimes distracting as it prevents me
> from seeing the actual border pattern of the object.
>
> Is there a global property that governs that?  I tried looking it up but
> unfortunately the Dictionary doesn't let me type in the search field on
> Linux (I believe that's reported and in progress).
>
> If not, it might be a nice compliment to the selectionHandleColor
> property to have something like the selectionBorder, a Boolean to turn
> that off if we prefer.

Hi Richard,

That's a good point about affecting the ability to preview the border 
settings while adjusting them in the property inspector.  There isn't 
currently a preference for the dashed outline.  Please go ahead and file 
an enhancement request.

                                Peter

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