Selecting a member of an object

Xara LX has a special form of Select Inside which allows you to select a particular member of a compound object
as opposed to the normal select inside which will always selects the actual object
you click on. With select member, a click selects the object inside the compound object which contains the clicked object. If that object is a compound object, another click will select a member in that object and so on. When the last selected object is not a compound object the next click will select the outermost object again.

To select a member of an object

1. Choose the Selector Tool (see Selecting objects).

2. Place the mouse pointer over the member of the compound object.

3. Either:

CTRL+ALT-click to select the member object,

or CTRL+ALT+Shift-click to swap the member object between selected and not selected.

If the required member object is deeper inside the object, repeat step 3.

CTRL+ALT-click to select the next member of the selected object.

Notes

When any selected object is inside another one the status line shows, for example "2 shapes selected ("inside")"

Some operations are unavailable when any selected object is inside another one.

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