Maniphest T66189

Issue with box select and active object.
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William Reynish (billreynish)
Authored By
slowburn (slowburn)
Jun 27 2019, 10:35 PM
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  • BF Blender
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slowburn (slowburn)
William Reynish (billreynish)

Description

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.17134 64 Bits
Graphics card: Radeon (TM) RX 470 Graphics ATI Technologies Inc. 4.5.13559 Core Profile Context 26.20.12001.7006

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.80 (sub 74), branch: master, commit date: 2019-06-26 19:03, hash: rB155c62b070a9
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Short description of error
Selecting one or more objects with box select tool keeps previously selected object as an active object, even though it's no longer selected.

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slowburn (slowburn) created this task.Jun 27 2019, 10:35 PM
William Reynish (billreynish) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Jun 27 2019, 11:03 PM
William Reynish (billreynish) claimed this task.
William Reynish (billreynish) added a subscriber: William Reynish (billreynish).

This is not a bug - it's always how Blender worked.

The main issue is that there exists no perfect way to determine which object should then become the active one.

slowburn (slowburn) added a comment.Jun 29 2019, 12:42 AM

It could pick any object from new selection, would still make a lot more sense than keeping deselected object as active.
Besides, blender does the same thing if you box-select only one object, that's definitely a bug imo.

Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) mentioned this in T71326: Select Box doesn't change the object shown in the properties panel.Nov 4 2019, 12:42 PM