prevent takes change before item selected (without locking item)

with nothing selected, if I click on an item with multiple takes whaever take i click on to select the item will become active. this makes accidentally (and unknowingly) changing to a different take very easy. is there an option to require an item to be first selected before a take change can be made? note: I don't want to achieve this by locking the item. I like to use locking as the final 'finished' state of this item. I want the above functionality for when i have semi-committed to a take, and don't want to have to 2nd guess my self if I have accidentally changed it. thanks!

hey, thanks for the reply. yeah I knew that, and works well. but then it's not obvious that there are multiple takes in an item. there are loads of work arounds for my "issue", i guess that it was no big deal. i don't even know why i want it to work the way i do, but it would be nice if if could. expanding it out I think it would be good if you couldn't do any edits on an item without selecting it first, like position for example. it's easy enough to click & drag on an item when you actually mean to just select it.

I would like this too. And I know you said you don't want to lock the ITEM, but just to be clear, did you really mean to say you don't want to lock to active take? Cause that's substantially different from locking the entire item. Locking to active take is my present workaround, but I might try the toggle lanes thing...

Locking to active take, that is the way to go I suppose. maybe i can make a custom action so that takes are always locked to active take, then when you shift-click on take, it calls custom action first to unlock, changes selection, then re locks to the new active take. will look into that. however, thinking about it more I would really like the option for "select item first before any changes can be made" behaviour for everything, not just active takes. thanks btw!