Being able to select overlapped content

It's pretty simple to explain actually, imagine a box that cover another element to the point this element is no longer clickable because if you click on it it will select the box in front of it. A solution to this is to use the following strategy :

Each time you click once on something it will select the one displayed at the "front", if you click again, it will select the one just behind it, and if you click again, the one behind the previous one as well, So each time you click somewhere it will cycle thru overlapped objects and eventually go back to the first one. Clicking too far from the first click resets the cycle.

Seen this feature in several software now, and it's very useful that we don't have to search for the element in the tree and don't have to move around stuff to grab the ones behind it too.

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