Re: some quetsions about features and plugins

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> Another use would be to really filter objects from a selection. If I
> am only interested in the arrows in some region of the diagram, I
> could just select all objects in that region, and then filter out all
> objects that are not arrows.
>
> The internal code to do this kind of filtering might already be in
> place. One could think of just iterating through all objects for
> matches in the worst case. But the interface to the user for
> specifying these criteria would need a lot of thinking.

 There's some of it there, in the Select menu, in that you can choose  
how new selections interact with the current selection. It's not  
omnipotent, but it could do your example above (select an arrow,  
select Same Type, select Intersection, select the area). I do think  
the underlying code is slightly broken at the moment, i.e. it doesn't  
work, but it shoudl be a simple fix to get it back to working, as it  
has worked previously.. Possibly it's just something that went wrong  
in the GtkAction conversion.

-Lars