Selector Tool F2 or Spacebar or ALT+S

The Selector Tool is the primary tool in Xara LX. It is used for selecting, rotating, moving, skewing, stretching, flipping and scaling objects as well as other editing.

The Selector Tool can display several types of handle:

Selection Handles, which are used to rotate, scale and skew objects.

Edit Handles, which can be used to edit the shape of objects.

Fill Handles, which can be used to edit fills within objects.

Selector Tool Infobar Controls

Selection Handles

Edit Handles

Fill Handles

Rotate/Skew Mode or Scale Mode

Transformation Center Grid

Position

Dimensions

Scaling

Aspect Ratio Lock

Rotation

Skew

Flip

Scale Line Widths

Create New Name

Selector Tool Operations

Switching selection handle mode

Selecting objects

Moving objects

Rotating objects

Scaling objects

Flipping objects

Enabling selection handles

Enabling edit handles

Enabling fill handles and fill arrows

Stretching objects

Skewing objects

Moving fill handles

Using the Selector Tool temporarily

Moving points on shapes and lines

Selecting point handles

Moving the transformation center

Movies (not working in this version)

Using selection handles

Selecting objects

Selecting objects in objects

Selecting objects under objects

Moving objects