Selection Filter blink and eventually turn off

Rhino
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@Travis thanks for the new selection filters.

I have a new issue. The filters blink when I make a selection. After some window selections, the filters turn off.

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Hi Martin -

This is not new behavior. It flashes to let the user know that Rhino is in a ā€œfilter modeā€. When too many attempts are taken that do not result in a successful selection, the filters are turned off.

Apparently, too many users get stuck in a filter mode without knowing whatā€™s going on.

Iā€™ve added your thread to a related YT issue:
RH-63700 Figure out how to make sub-object selection obvious to users
-wim

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Thanks for the quick reply.

Iā€™m not sure about turning the filters off.

Would there be a way to revert to a user defined filter configuration?

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We are not sure why you were trying to select that point four times in a rowā€¦

I have aliases for SelectionFilterEdges and such.
-wim

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Haha, yes me neither. I was confused about the blinking and tried to see what happens

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i turned off the behaviour to disable the selection filter, as i have aliases for switching between sets of them. but the blinking i cant get rid off, is it possible to turn it off? its quite annoying as even if you close the selection filter list, it will just pop up again and blink. (and i mean it would be cool to have anyway, just to not have that blinking behaviour)

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Hej Viktor -

It only blinks when you try to select something that isnā€™t eligible. Since you seem to be aware of the filters and can easily switch between states, why are you getting into a situation where you are trying to pick something that you shouldnā€™t? And, more importantly, how many more times would you try to pick that object if the blinking didnā€™t tell you that you canā€™t?
At any rate, no, there isnā€™t a way to turn the blinking off.
-wim

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Thanks for the quick reply, but sorry isnt that awful behaviour? Wouldnā€™t the point of a filter be, hey i want to pick these things and not those other things?

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i have an alias on ā€˜rcā€™ to `_NoEcho '-SelectionFilter _ShowDialog=_No _Curves=_Yes _Surfaces=_No _Polysurfaces=_No _SubDs=_No _Meshes=_No _Annotations=_No _Lights=_No _Blocks=_No _Points=_No _ControlPoints=_No _PointClouds=_No _Hatches=_No _Others=_No _DisableFilter=_No _Subobjects=_No _Enter`

then if i box select it, i get the polyline only which is exactly what i want, BUT i get the blinking.

Why? its the behaviour i want, i have to hide it like this to not get the blinking, and then i cant click one thing on/off if i really want it, and end up having to have binds for every situation.

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Would be nice if the blinking could be deactivated.

The whole point of a filter is that you can select one type in a selection that without filter would select multiple geometries.

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Hej -

Thanks for spelling that out.

I think we all agree on that.
Making this better is what RH-63700 is all about.
-wim

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nice thanks. ye i feel like with the behaviour its fine because we can turn off the auto disable the filter, so the blinking being toggleable as well would make it perfect :smiley: (and the whole make it more intuitive seems like a bigger endeavour?)