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I know I don't really need to say much more than "Visio", but we only got acquainted a couple of weeks back and I really did think that we were going to be, if not friends, then at least mutually agreeable to a beneficial and productive working arragement, and not that I would be playing BLOODY MOUSE-CLICK RUSSIAN ROULETTE EVERY TIME I TRY AND DO SOMETHING AS WILD AND DARING AS TRYING TO SELECT A SHAPE ON THE PAGE. You have a shape on the page, right, and it's sitting atop a bunch of other, larger shapes, and you just want to select it. That's all. You don't want to select any of the ones underneath, or any of the ones to the left, or whatever. Nor do you want to edit the text of the shape, because if you did YOU'D BE USING THE BLOODY TEXT TOOL NOT THE POINTER BECAUSE IT'S WHAT THE TEXT TOOL IS FOR AND SO IF YOU HIT SOMETHING WITH THE POINTER YOU DON'T EXPECT TO BE FUCKING EDITING TEXT, DO YOU? But the crux of the matter is that, if you do want to select that shape, it takes N clicks, with N being *a different value every single time*. So you just keep clicking and clicking and eventually you select it but you're into the rhythm of clicking and you do one too many and now you're selecting the wrong thing again. So you have to start over. Nnnnnnggggg. Plus, a whole load of other rants about the uselessness of the Windows UI template set (a couple of the widgets are ghostable, but only a couple, so if you want a whole set of widgets ghosted you're SOL because only a third of them can be), the thing never remembering what I want my text defaults to be, et bloody cetera. Is there a better way of mocking up Windows UI nice and fast without going slowly insane? Anyone? -- Yoz
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