Ability to lock which stage parts are set in VAB

[Azimech]

While building, the thing that takes the most time is rearranging the parts in the staging list. I might be adding sepratrons to stage #2 - booster decouple - and usually they're placed in stage #1, #3 or #4. Another example is launch clamps that get their own stage before the engines or one or multiple stages behind etc.

While I usually like the automatic placement in the staging list, there are moments where an option to force parts in a specific stage would be very useful and cause less irritation. It could work like this: click once on the stage number and the stage changes colour (purple?) and parts added to the ship are forced to that stage until the number is clicked again.

In another topic some people were also talking about the ability to drag a cluster of parts directly from one stage to another, instead of the current situation: click-expand-drag, which seems counter-intuitive.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/60892-Parts-automatically-ordered-to-the-wrong-stage-in-VAB-SPH-how-do-I-lock-the-stage