Marquee Select

French translation: sélection rectangulaire

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English term or phrase:Marquee Select
French translation:sélection rectangulaire
Entered by: FX Fraipont (X)

01:51 Dec 25, 2019
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Computers: Software
English term or phrase: Marquee Select
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Marquee Select
The Marquee Select tool is an easy way to select multiple buttons.
Just click and drag to draw a rectangle around one or more buttons that you would like to select.
Select the Edit button.
Select the Button tab.
Select the Marquee Select tool.
Click (or touch), then drag diagonally to draw a rectangle over all of the buttons that you would like to select.
Using Marquee Select — Buttons do not need to be completely contained within the rectangle to be selected.
Click on single buttons individually to select/deselect them.
Button selections can be made in the Toolbar or on the Page, but not both at the same time.
Make the desired changes to the selected buttons.
NikkoTh
sélection rectangulaire
Explanation:
"Marquee select
Selection rectangulaire"
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4 +2sélection rectangulaire
FX Fraipont (X)
4 +1sélection par points
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marquee select
sélection par points


Explanation:

marquee select tool

--> outil de sélection par points, ici d’un rectangle, mais le terme est générique, s’utilisant pour les ellipses, etc.

“Marquee Types - There are four main versions of the Marquee selection tool, located in the Tools panel: Rectangular Marquee: Draw a rectangular box around your selection [...]” : https://www.shutterstock.com/support/article/what-is-the-mar...

« Les outils de sélection permettent de sélectionner des rectangles, des ellipses ainsi que des rangées et des colonnes de 1 pixel [...] » : https://helpx.adobe.com/fr/photoshop/using/selecting-marquee...





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agree  GILOU: ou par texte défilant (MS)
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  -> Merci Gilou.

neutral  Tony M: Potentially misleading, as this does not involve defining an irregular selection shape by plotting points around its outline — that would be a different tool. The commonest 'marquee' shape is indeed a rectangle, I think if other shapes were intended, the
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marquee select
sélection rectangulaire


Explanation:
"Marquee select
Selection rectangulaire"
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language/Search?&searchTerm=...

FX Fraipont (X)
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Local time: 14:06
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agree  Samuel Clarisse
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agree  Tony M: Normally, it involves dragging to create a quadrilateral 'box' round the items to be selected; only in specific fields are differently-shaped outlines possible, ad Asker's context should make it clear if that is the case.
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