Cherry-pick: Improve Node UX

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Pulls in godotengine/godot#111603

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Shift, Ctrl, and Cmd selection now preserves existing selections and supports adding or removing items during box selection.
  • Releasing a selection box no longer clears the selection if you interacted with items inside it.
  • Ctrl/Cmd interactions suppress node hover indicators and the editable-name cursor.

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Walkthrough

The state-machine editor now preserves selections during modifier-key interactions, applies distinct rules to box selection, and suppresses node hover indicators while Ctrl/Cmd is pressed.

Changes

State-machine editor selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Box and click selection editor/animation/animation_state_machine_editor.h, editor/animation/animation_state_machine_editor.cpp	The editor tracks whether a box contains items and updates selection behavior for node clicks and box selection based on Shift and Ctrl/Cmd input.
Modifier-key hover indicators editor/animation/animation_state_machine_editor.cpp	Ctrl/Cmd input suppresses play and edit hover areas, along with the I-beam cursor over editable node names.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: arctis-fireblight, generalprotectionfault

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4dd18

Ctrl/Cmd or Shift clicking empty graph space unexpectedly clears the current selection. This is a bounded, recoverable editor interaction regression; merging is low risk with owner awareness, though preserving the selection is recommended.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title identifies the change as a node user-experience improvement. This matches the selection and interaction changes in the state-machine editor, although it does not specify the selection behavi…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @editor/animation/animation_state_machine_editor.cpp:
- Around line 380-381: Update the selection-release logic around
`any_inside_selection` so an empty-space click clears `selected_nodes` only when
no modifier is held; for Ctrl/Cmd or Shift clicks, restore or retain
`previous_selected`.

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• editor/animation/animation_state_machine_editor.cpp
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the selection on modifier clicks in empty space.

If the user holds Ctrl/Cmd or Shift and clicks empty space without moving the mouse, any_inside_selection remains false. This branch then clears every selected node, despite saving previous_selected on mouse press. This also contradicts the additive Ctrl/Cmd selection behavior described upstream. (github.com)

Apply the modifier-preservation rule on release. Clear the selection for an unmodified empty-space click, but retain previous_selected for a modifier click.

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Review comment at @editor/animation/animation_state_machine_editor.cpp around
lines 380 - 381:
Update the selection-release logic around `any_inside_selection` so an
empty-space click clears `selected_nodes` only when no modifier is held; for
Ctrl/Cmd or Shift clicks, restore or retain `previous_selected`.

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