Can't select on current selection

Question

Since upgrading to yEd 3.14.4, I can't seem to get the "Act On Current Selection" option to work. If I have an existing selection, then do a "Select Elements" with AOCS enabled using filter criteria that should match only a subset of the currently-selected elements, the selection does not change. Specifically, I'm trying to filter a an arbitrary set of nodes to those with zero outdegree (terminal nodes). I

1. Select the desired nodes using the Structure View. The nodes have varying degrees of inputs and outputs, some zero
2. Open the Select Elements tool and configure as

• Act On Current Selection Only: true
• Clear Selection First: false
• Nodes: Use These Criteria
  • Select: Outdegree
  • Minimal Degree: 0
  • Maximum Degree: 0

1. Click Ok

No change. I've tried a variety of different criteria to see if it's something about this particular search, but regardless of which I provide, the selection never changes.

Am I overlooking something?

Answer 1

You need to set "Clear Selection First" to "true" to get the desired result.

(However, this is no new behavior in yEd 3.14.4, but has been this way for a long time.)

Comments

Thanks, make sense once I think about it. It's been a while since I'd used the previous version, so it's quite likely I simply forgot how it was supposed to work.