Hi Danny, thanks for the feedback!
> What will the new panel show on multiple selections
What I think will happen is if all the objects have the same name, it will show that name there, or otherwise say: (multi) or (varies) in there.
For the type label, if all the selected objects have the same type it will show that type, or otherwise if they are of different types I think it will just say x objects, like: 5 objects.
For the style if all objects have the same style it will show that style, or otherwise say Multiple styles, or (varies) in there too, something like that.
> and will you have a filter selection system for each object type,
> like if I want to select all curves and filter out all other
> objects from selection ?
I do want to have this, but I'm considering that to be a selection helper tool, I'd like to categorize it under the Select tab in the UI. It will be a pretty separate piece of work from the grouping and properties stuff. It is kind of doubtful that this will fit into the v2 timeframe at this point.
There are some existing tools you can use for that though - Petr wrote a custom command for selecting all objects of a particular type which you can get here:
http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/#SelectByType
You can also set up a script on a keyboard shortcut to select or deselect a particular type of object, like for example this one will select all curves:
code:
script:moi.geometryDatabase.getObjects().getCurves().setProperty( 'selected', true );
And various other similar ones (like select closed curves, select solids, etc...) are listed here:
http://kyticka.webzdarma.cz/3d/moi/#SelectNaked
Let me know if you have a particular kind of selection task involving object types that you need to do frequently and I probably can cook up a script for a keyboard shortcut that will do it in the current version.
- Michael
