[Problem] Ctrl+A to select all the geometries in a sketch

[FEA-eng]

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Problem description

Some time ago @PaddleStroke added a really cool feature that allows the use of standard copy, cut and paste keyboard shortcuts in the Sketcher (#11537). I think that it would be nice to also have the Ctrl+A shortcut implemented to select all the geometries (and then copy/cut them with another shortcut). Currently, one has to drag the selection box to do that. This could also eliminate the need for this tool: Sketcher DeleteAllGeometry since it would be just a matter of using Ctrl+A followed by Delete.

Full version info

OS: Windows 10 build 19045
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.22.0dev.36082 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: main
Hash: 7a025e4e60a607bdbdd1599627ce13bb8eeda071
Python 3.10.13, Qt 5.15.8, Coin 4.0.2, Vtk 9.2.6, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: Polish/Poland (pl_PL)

Subproject(s) affected?

Sketcher

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[Be-Cool-Man]

Additionally, there should be a shortcut for selecting all constraints E.G., [CTRL]+[Shift]+[A]

[hasecilu]

According to https://wiki.freecad.org/Sandbox:Keyboard_Shortcuts shortcuts using Ctrl key should be reserved for global commands.

Ctrl+A already works on tree view and task panel, specifically for Sketcher, pressing Ctrl+A selects all elements but only the element that was originally selected is highlighted in the viewport. Using Ctrl to add another element to selection work, using Shift+Ctrl to add various elements to selection not work.

For constraints it seems all mentioned above is working.

Tested dev branch

[FEA-eng]

Ctrl+A already works on tree view and task panel, specifically for Sketcher, pressing Ctrl+A selects all elements but only the element that was originally selected is highlighted in the viewport. Using Ctrl to add another element to selection work, using Shift+Ctrl to add various elements to selection not work.

Right, but it needs a major overhaul. For geometry, it works only when the Elements tab has the focus, doesn't highlight anything else than the current manual selection and doesn't work with the new copy/cut shortcuts.

[maxwxyz]

Additionally, there should be a shortcut for selecting all constraints E.G., [CTRL]+[Shift]+[A]

What would be the use case for this? Copy/Pasting constraints do not work. You could select all or multiple in the task dialog to change them to driven. There is also the command to delete all constraints.