[Bf-funboard] Select Mode Proposal

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:04:57AM -0600, Johnny Matthews wrote:
> I have put up a proposal for selection mode management at
> 
http://216.125.72.236/selectprop/


Alternative proposal:

Selection filters


Filters that allow, when activated, selection of:
- vertices
- edges
- faces
(- geometry objects, would require change from object-/editmode concept and 
would in some way override the others, because of the resulting active 
area.)
- lattices
- empties
- armatures
- lamps
- cameras

Maybe some of these should be combined, like lattices, empties and armatures.

Filters are not exclusive. All selectable items should be highlighted 
on mouse-over (it's currently hard sometimes to be sure which vertex 
you are going to select by clicking). Of course this requires a 
sophisticated handling of hot-areas, if several filters are active.

There could be a special filter allowing loop selection. It would work 
on edges and/or faces according to their filters setting.


I wanted to develop this a little bit further before posting, but because 
of this other proposal ...

Feedback, please!


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Thorsten