double click Double click for quick selections of similar nearby objects

[Akerka]

Frequently I miss an ability quickly to select similar nearby objects by one double-click instead click every tile by myself.

1. I want to dig all this wolfram's deposit. I'm selecting the corresponding  tool and clicking twice  on any tile of the deposit. As result, all its tiles are marked for extraction. It's intuitive. As foolproof against something like accidentally clicking on abyssalite, the effect can be limited by screen.  

2. I need to sweep a slime from a floor. But I need not to sweep all garbage that lays in the same tile with the slime. I'm aiming to one piece of slime and make double click to select all pieces of slime on the screen.

3. I want to sweep all slime from the map. I'm selecting tool and double clicking on "slime" in the list on the right.

 

More cases? What about to remove ladder by double click on one of its tiles? Or segment of pipe.

[Sasza22]

2 hours ago, Akerka said:

1. I want to dig all this wolfram's deposit. I'm selecting the corresponding  tool and clicking twice  on any tile of the deposit. As result, all its tiles are marked for extraction. It's intuitive. As foolproof against something like accidentally clicking on abyssalite, the effect can be limited by screen.  

This isn`t a bad idea in theory but in practice all the wolframite needs to be reachable. You can select all of it to be mined but you will need to mine other tiles so that dupes can get there.

2 hours ago, Akerka said:

2. I need to sweep a slime from a floor. But I need not to sweep all garbage that lays in the same tile with the slime. I'm aiming to one piece of slime and make double click to select all pieces of slime on the screen.

That would be pretty useful. The current system doesn`t allow to select more than one thing at a time but a filter for sweeping stuff is badly needed. Especially in space where sweeping a single tile grants 3-4 tons of regolith on top of what you intend to sweep.

2 hours ago, Akerka said:

3. I want to sweep all slime from the map. I'm selecting tool and double clicking on "slime" in the list on the right.

When considering sweeping one thing from the entire map it`s better to set a storage bin to accept that thing and give it a high priority. I often have prio 7-8 slime storage inside my water pool just to make sure there`s no loose slime on the map. Funcionallity is the same as selecting all the slime bits for sweep.

3 hours ago, Akerka said:

More cases? What about to remove ladder by double click on one of its tiles? Or segment of pipe.

The deconstruct tool has a filter. Set it only to buildings and you can drag to remove the ladder. Select pipes and drag to remove pipes (it also auto selects the proper thing when using an overlay).