turning off wings annoying habit

[crystalwizard]

Wings has a very annoying habit.

Every time I hit space to unselect everything, wings promptly highlits vertex/edge/face and expects me to fight with the cusor to highlight what I want it to act on.

How do I turn this off?

If I have selected vertex, even after I hit space bar, I want to keep working on vertexs until I choose something else.

There are plenty of times when I am working on an object that I can't zoom in all that close on and I don't need to have to fight the cusor until it just happens to highlight the right thing.

And I don't want to have to stop my work flow, click on the thing I had already selected to work on, and then go back to what I was doing.

So while I understand it might be useful behaviour for some people for wings to do this, for me its a serious problem.

I really want to turn this off. Is there anyway to do so?

[VladD]

If I have selected vertex, even after I hit space bar, I want to keep working on vertexs until I choose something else.

In the Preferences, General Tab, under "highlighting" check "conditional deselection". From now on, ONE tap of the spacebar will deselect without changing the mode of selection, and a second one will put you back into the default multi type mode.

[crystalwizard]

Excellent! Thank you very much

[miahuff86]

Yeah many thanks Vlad! I was also having a hard time struggling against this highlighting quirk. Now it works just like I want it to.

[Geta-Ve]

Alternatively you could hit spacebar, to deselect and return to smart selection, and then hit v/f/e/b to bring yourself into whichever selection mode you prefer.

[Anthony]

Now why didn't I notice that before, retain selection, keep selection, selection hold, maintain selection mode, but oh no "conditional deselection" oh well.

[oort]

I wonder if it would be possible to have "conditional deselection" set to enabled by default with a first time Wings3D install??? Seems most people need it turned on. Is there a backwards compatibility issue if it is enabled by default?

Thanks,
oort