[Paraview] Selection of Multiple distinct cells/points

Christian Werner christian.werner at rwth-aachen.de
Tue Mar 30 04:10:56 EDT 2010


What about switching views with TAB? There is that blue border on the 
"active" widget. It sort of tempts you to first activate the other view 
before doing anything there.

Best regards,
Christian

Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> It's because of the way selections on table views in Qt work. Short of
> having Qt folks fix the behavior I don't see any non-hackish way of
> dealing with it.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christian Werner
> <christian.werner at rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>   
>> I see, if I "carefully" select the spreadsheet view then nothing is lost. It
>> would be nice that clicking on the blank part doesn't clear your selection,
>> but I see that this probably isn't easily realised. Somehow, I got used to
>> just click into emtpy space to activate a widget, although I know that going
>> straight to the buttons or just use the mousewheel works as well.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>     
>>>> 1) Have your objects in a 3D view and don't select anything. Then split
>>>> your
>>>> view and start a spreadsheet view. Select points in your 3D and switch
>>>> back
>>>> to spreadsheet view. Selection is gone.
>>>> 2) In the 3D view and select some points. Open up a spreadsheet view.
>>>> Switch
>>>> between those two Views. Selection is gone.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> How are you making the spreadsheet view active? Are you clicking in
>>> the blank part or the part showing data in the spreadsheet view? That
>>> clears the selection in the spreadsheet view. You should click on the
>>> titlebar or scrollbar or the headers.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>>       
>>     



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