I can't belive no-one has asked about this yet as I find it a real Pain in the a$$ but I did a search and found nothing...
anyway, in MAX you could make a selection marquee and it would either select every item that fell under the marquee boundary (Like in Maya) or it would ONLY select items which fell ENTIRELY under the marquee, dependant on the window/crossing toggle setting.
Now this doesn't really make me that crazy until I'm selecting edges.
Does anyone know of any workround or script that can emulate this? I've tried the "grow and shrink selection" commands but they stink quite frankly. Selecting via a different component then "converting selection" is also pretty turd for this particular job.
BTW I'm still using Maya 3.01. sigh...
:nathaN