[Paraview] Auto-Execute Plugin on Selection

[Christian Werner]

The attached image from the initial post has no name, is invisible and 
very small. Here is another one.

Christian Werner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to know if there is a way to execute a macro on a certain 
> event, e.g. when the user does a selection in the 3D viewer. The 
> problem is that I have to select several object out of many 
> candidates. Of course, I could just do a multiselection with using the 
> Ctrl key, but for reasons of usability it has to be prevented that a 
> selection can get lost. Take a look at the attached image and imagine 
> you were analyzing this dataset for quite a while and already selected 
> several objects with a multi select. On the next object you forget to 
> press the control key while selecting... Bad luck... Everything is 
> gone. You may start all over.
> So I thought maybe I could call a plugin whenever a selection is done. 
> This plugin could just look up the x,y,z coordinates of the selection, 
> which would already do the job for me. If this is not possible, would 
> it be worthwhile looking into the source to ruthlessly "hack" this 
> into Paraview?
> Or does somebody have any other good idea?
>
> Maybe it would be nice to turn multiselection permanently on/off!
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: desktop_screenshot3.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 37903 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/attachments/20100405/16db5cb9/attachment-0001.jpg>