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It is very difficult to select a combined fragments box (CFG) in the diagram editor. Left-clicking a border of the CFG will not cause the CFG to be selected if the pointer is within the bounding box for an object. (By the "bounding box", I mean the box with the sizing handles.) In other words, the precedence always favours the object, rather than the CFG. The only way to select the CFG is to click on a CFG border that is in the gap between the bounding boxes of two adjacent objects. (Of course, if the CFG is outside any object, there is no problem.) Here is the way that I think precedence works in other drafting packages. Consider a short line in a rectangular box. The line does not touch the rectangle at any point. Here is what happens when you click in several different places. 1) Click outside the rectangle. Nothing is selected. 2) Click on a border of the rectangle. The rectangle is selected. 3) Click on the short line. The line is selected. 4) Click anywhere within the rectangle, but not on the line. The rectangle is selected. With some packages, you can use one of the control keys to allow for the fact that the short line in our example may be exactly on the border of the rectangle. If the short line is clicked, then either the line or the rectangle is selected. If a control key is held down, and the short line is clicked, then the alternative thing is selected. (I think it probably depends on which thing is "in front".)
it's much easier to select cf now, but may not all suggestion works, will be in trunlk in a week