Interactively select frames

The default behaviour when interactively clicking on a frame in an open plot layout is to navigate down the parent-child tree to find the lowest (usually the most visible) child frame.

This default behaviour can be overridden by holding down the SHIFT key while making the selection. The SHIFT key will restrict the selection to the parent frame. Holding down the SHIFT key and left-clicking multiple times will move the selection down the parent-child tree one frame at a time.

If you SHIFT and left-click and there is no lower child, the selection will bounce back up to the highest parent frame. This means you can hold down SHIFT and left-click multiple times to cycle through the parent-child frame hierarchy.

The CTRL key can be used to combine frame selections (provided that the selected frames share the same parent frame). Note that a CTRL click on a new frame that is not a sibling of an existing frame selection will clear the selection.

You can also select frames by dragging the mouse to create a selection rectangle.

You can only select frames that share the same parent frame.