I just realised the component selector in Pages is live. Wow!
This makes things so much easier especially for those screens with a lot of componentsā¦
You donāt even have to switch views but uses the hover effect to highlight the componentsā¦
Thank you Glide team 
https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-selector-in-pages-play-select-mode/44138?u=luther
Iām sure I saw something similar to this in staging a while back. Nice to see its made its way into production 
And itās much better than the way it behaves in Apps, with that annoying hotkey switching that hijacks your keyboard 
I really wish there was a way to disable that.
I agree, this is so much betterā¦
When working with Apps, I would sometimes forget that my Apps were in select mode and start to panic when I press a button on the App in the builder and nothing happens. I would of course realise this a few minutes later that I was on selector modeā¦
This is so much betterā¦
I work almost exclusively in Play mode, and it gets me every time I take a screenshot. The key combination on a Mac to select an area and screenshot it is Cmd-Shift-4. So every time I go to take a screenshot, I hit my Cmd key, the builder immediately switches to Select mode, and I get a blue box around one of the components, which ruins my screenshot, and I swear really really loudly.
Iāve had to train myself to take the cursor context away from the Glide builder by clicking in another window before I take a screenshot. But sometimes I forgetā¦
Your message is really funny 
But I agree with you the hotkey on Mac is anything but funny.
I like to use humour to get my point across. But alas, my grumpy old mans sense of humour quite often goes straight over the topā¦
Iām not seeing it in productionā¦screenshot?
I guess Iām alone in saying that I love the MacBook keyboard shortcut. I find myself command-clicking on components in Pages only to frustratingly scroll through my list of components in the left hand panel.
yep, Iām still seeing it. I really like this method much better ā¦
But if I have a screen with 40 components on it, scrolling through that list isnāt helpful. I want to just select the component I see in front of me.
oh, right - so you want it to work the other way around.
I get what you mean, I guess I donāt see it as a problem as I rarely have that many components on a single screen.
I get that command click isnāt the best hot key, but Iād prefer ANY hot key to bring this backā¦that or right clicking a component to select it which apparently you canāt do in pages either.
Yeah, Iād be perfectly happy with the same behaviour as we have in Apps, if only it was a different shortcut key. In fact, I requested this almost 2 years agoā¦
Yeah ā¦I see what you mean now. I think I was too excited to notice that itās not actually the same thing as in Apps but rather a hover effectā¦
But even so, it is a step in the right direction. This is better than nothing at all 
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Fingers crossed the actual component selector as in Apps is in the makingā¦