Command drag in layout should be reserved for selection

Designing complex layouts containing dozens of objects crammed into a small amount of space can be a huge challenge developing in FileMaker Pro. Lacking support for layers or an object tree where it’s possible to visualize and select groups of objects or individual objects within groups—there are various tricks and workarounds one must master using FileMaker. One “trick” involves command-dragging (on Mac) over a selection of objects to select them. As long as the object falls anywhere within the drag selection it gets selected. Without holding the command key only objects fully contained within the drag area get selected. Great. This is very useful. However, when you have layers of objects piled on top of one another, selecting specific groups of objects becomes a chore.

One common safeguard and practice is to lock objects you don’t want to operate on then you can more easily command-drag-select all objects on top or below the locked objects. However, if the underlying object is not locked and you command-drag in an attempt to select objects, you end up actually moving the object first command-clicked onto.

What would be helpful is if command-select-drag ONLY functioned to select a range of objects. Command clicking on an object (as in the starting point of a drag especially if the underlying object is a large background or portal) would not move the object when attempting to drag select.