[REQ] un-select everything

fredo6

That's a one-liner


while Sketchup.active_model.close_active ; end

Apparently, this also clears the selection if any

ESC does it too, but step by step

Fredo

solo

@rich o brien said:

Does the ESC key not do it? On phone at the mo so can't check it

8 years using SU almost everyday, I have never tried that, I thought I'd had all the needed hot keys programmed on my 3D navigator, so ESC was never considered. I feel like an idiot, need to demote myself to beginner status.

massimo

@solo said:

@rich o brien said:

Does the ESC key not do it? On phone at the mo so can't check it

8 years using SU almost everyday, I have never tried that, I thought I'd had all the needed hot keys programmed on my 3D navigator, so ESC was never considered. I feel like an idiot, need to demote myself to beginner status.

jeff hammond

fwiw, on mac, esc doesn't clear a selection(s)..

it's cmmd-A for select all & shift-cmmd-A for deselect all

gilles

@jeff hammond said:

fwiw, on mac, esc doesn't clear a selection(s)..

it's cmmd-A for select all & shift-cmmd-A for deselect all

It does for me or maybe I've a fake Mac

jeff hammond

@gilles said:

It does for me or maybe I've a fake Mac

really? that's strange.
do you use an english keyboard? or- i wonder what else may be the reason why ESC deselects for you and not me?

gilles

AZERTY, do you think this could make a difference?

Krisidious

Esc does work and I use it often... But something to exit out of all groups and unselect everything back to the top of the model hierarchy would be nice.

gilles

It does not work with some tools when they are active.

massimo

@krisidious said:

Esc does work and I use it often... But something to exit out of all groups and unselect everything back to the top of the model hierarchy would be nice.

This works like a charm.

Krisidious

Crap... another context menu item... I'm already having spanning issues on my context menu. Oh well, one more to add to the party. Thanks Massimo.

jeff hammond

@gilles said:

AZERTY, do you think this could make a difference?

not sure.. i guess a few more mac users would have to try it to see..
also, i wonder if everyone in the thread is talking about the same thing and i might of replied too quickly prior to fully understanding the question.

are we talking about exiting groups or un-selecting selected items? i'll read back through the thread a little later.

Rich O Brien

Exiting editing mode from nested groups

gilles

@jeff hammond said:

@gilles said:

AZERTY, do you think this could make a difference?

not sure.. i guess a few more mac users would have to try it to see..
also, i wonder if everyone in the thread is talking about the same thing and i might of replied too quickly prior to fully understanding the question.

are we talking about exiting groups or un-selecting selected items? i'll read back through the thread a little later.

Both.

pbacot

I just use the key command for exit group... But you mean altogether out of all nested groups?

I would also like a command to be able to click on an object and have it open that objects group immediately, no mater how nested.

driven

@jeff,
esc works on my iMac. but I have never used it...
I don't think it did on my mac book, so haven't tried it since...
john

DOD3R

Hi all,
I use ESC to exit components/groups i have no problem with that. I dont even need a function exit all, because its not that difficult to hit esc four times to exit from the nested group. And even i thing it helps me to be aware on witch layer in the nest am I.
But still sometimes I loose track of things and i would like some visual clue. I know there is outliner and it serves this purpose well. But it gets messy sometimes and for good orientation takes a lot of my screen space. I would like something illustrator has. see attachment.
what do you think?

T.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

But it gets messy sometimes

Sure if all components are named "Component"!

Krisidious

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

But it gets messy sometimes

Sure if all components are named "Component"!

Have you been looking at my models again Pilou?

Box

Funny how people can be talking about the same thing and not notice.

@bob james said:

@jim said:

Paste this into a file with the .rb extension in your plugins folder.


> > UI.add_context_menu_handler {|menu|
> >   menu.add_item("Close All Contexts") {
> >     Sketchup.active_model.selection.clear
> >     while (Sketchup.active_model.close_active); end
> >   }
> > }
> >

Called it BackOut.rb, assigned a shortcut to it, added it to a key on my P.I. Engineering x-keys keyboard and now I can back out from within any group/component with one key. Sure beats pecking at the Escape key
Thank you very much