Very nice Petr! Thanks!

Hi Michael,

>> say you have just the box selected, and now you want to select
>>all curves in addition to that. It won't work for that since it will take
>>the box as the example right away...

Hmmm... If I linked that custom command to the icon/button, I guess it could be solved. The first click on icon/button would start command as if there was no preselection allowed, it means the command prompt would pop-up and wait for picking an object, but the second click on icon/button would lead to resuming command using pre-selected object - similar to how command Hide works :)

Petr

Hi Petr,

I guess that could solve it, but at that point it seems rather complex compared to a menu with several choices on it...

It's true that it would be similar to Hide, but Hide is kind of a compromise from several different pressures on it, I'm not so sure if it is good to use Hide as a general model to follow.

Since Hide is used frequently it really needed to operate as a top-level button, and I really didn't want to have 3 buttons like "Hide", "Show", and "Show selected", all there at a prominent level, that would just take up too much space.

Selecting objects by type, while certainly useful, just isn't as frequently accessed. So it is not as bad to have stuff for it kind of nested down one level in a sub menu or something like that.

- Michael