SelectEvents Object

Description

The SelectEvents object supports a set of events that are fired when the user is selecting geometry. These events are fired when the user is selecting items from various UI elements such as the graphics window or the browser.

Methods

Name	Description
AddSelectionFilter	Adds a new filter (indication of the type of object(s) of interest) to the existing list of filters.
AddToSelectedEntities	Adds an entity to the selected entities collection.
AddWindowSelectionFilter	Adds a new filter (indication of the type of object(s) of interest) to the list of filters for Window Select (defaults to same filter list specified by AddSelectionFilter).
ClearSelectionFilter	Clears out the filter list.
ClearWindowSelectionFilter	Clears out the window selection filter list.
RemoveFromSelectedEntities	Removes entities from the selected entities collection.
ResetSelections	Resets the set of selections being recorded by this object to an empty set.

Properties

Name	Description
Application	Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
Enabled	Gets/Sets the flag indicating whether the selection is enabled.
ExpressSelectionEnabled	Gets/Sets the flag indicating whether express selection is enabled which controls the behavior of selection when an assembly is open in Express mode. If the assembly is not in Express mode this property has no effect.
IgnoreProfileInnerLoops	Gets and sets whether to ignore inner loops during 2d and 3d sketch profile selection. This property defaults to False.
MouseMoveEnabled	Gets/Sets the flag indicating whether a mouse move should fire an event (OnPreSelectMouseMove). Default is TRUE.
Parent	Gets the parent object from whom this object can logically be reached.
PreSelectBurnThrough	Gets/Sets the flag indicating whether the preselected items will burn through.
RestrictSelectionToOccurrence	Read-write property that gets and sets the ComponentOccurrence to which the selection should be restricted.
RestrictWindowSelectionToOccurrence	Read-write property that gets and sets the ComponentOccurrence the window selection should be restricted to.
SelectedEntities	Gets an ObjectsEnumerator that presents all of the selected objects so far.
SingleSelectEnabled	Gets/Sets the flag indicating whether single select is enabled.
Type	Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.
WindowSelectEnabled	Gets/Sets the flag indicating whether window select is enabled.

Events

Name	Description
OnPreSelect	Fires signaling that a particular object has been indicated as a potential candidate for selection.
OnPreSelectMouseMove	Event that occurs while an object is in pre-select mode and the user is moving the mouse. This allows you to receive mouse input relative to the pre-selected object.
OnSelect	Event that occurs when the user selects an entity.
OnStopPreSelect	Event that occurs when the currently pre-selected entity stops being displayed in pre-selection highlight--happens usually when the user has moved his/her mouse away from the vicinity of the pre-selected entity. This way, the client programmer has the ability to display additional graphics on pre-select and with the OnStopPreSelect knows when to stop displaying this additional graphics. An example can be seen in the Sketch trim command. As you move the mouse over some sketch graphics, you see the preview of what the result will be if you select the object and when you move away this trimmed preview is taken away.
OnUnSelect	Event that occurs when the user unselects an entity. This is done in the user interface by pressing the Shift button and selecting a previously selected entity.

Accessed From

InteractionEvents.SelectEvents

Samples

Name	Description
Basic Selection Using Interaction Events	This sample demonstrates using the selection events to select a face. Selection is dependent on events and VB only supports events within a class module.
Window Selection	This sample demonstrates using the selection events to window-select multiple edges. Selection is dependent on events and VB only supports events within a class module.

Version

Introduced in version 5

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