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Selection Manager / Mouse Controls

There are a lot of ways we can handle mouse control, to accomplish tradition RTS controls we could do something like:

selection manager receives click
  if (rightclick)
    cancel selection
  else if (has selection)
    do something with hits objects or coords (e.g. move / attack command)
  else
    add to selection

This can obviously be extended to detect dragging a selection rectangle at first, and once a group is selected, issue a command to all. If a group is selected, show a context menu in bottom / right / left of screen. e.g. C&C, Starcraft, TA.

We can also try various other control schemes. Gestures are an interesting options.

• hold right mouse for in place context menu, drag and release to select option.
• drag left mouse from building to building (coord to coord) to indicate orders.