turning off preselection highlighting

 From:  Michael Gibson
8435.41 In reply to 8435.40 
Hi Pior,

re:
> Well, it could very well be argued that if the point of the flashing outline is just to
> allow for the hunting of occluded objects ...

As the video shows it's not about only that. It shows 3 different cases only the first of which is for an occluded object.

It helps to give a general ability to see more information about the object's shape and if pieces of it are sticking off in unexpected areas that is very helpful with trying to understand what's going on with more complex geometry.


> My point is more along the lines of : given the fact that there *are* workflows that do not
> rely on it at all, and also considering that this visual feedback can very distracting for
> some users (definitely not all of course, but some), then it would make sense to have
> an *.ini option to disable this feature if so desired by the user.

I'll see about adding in an .ini option to disable it. Just be aware that by disabling it you will be reducing functionality for some use cases.

- Michael