Please bring back the preference to turn off highlight as temporary selection

[ingulit]

(01-22-2014 08:44 PM)micheus Wrote:  

(01-22-2014 07:23 PM)ingulit Wrote:  I'd genuinely like to know why the option was removed

ingulit, it seems you have far away for the Wings3d' forums for long time.

That was discussed late in 2010, proposed and argued by Optigon: Ideas for Cleaning up Wings Interface

Recently someone else asked about: Any way to murder temp selections?

Thank you for the link! I've been mulling it over for a few days now, and while I'm obviously not totally thrilled with the end result, I do now understand the reasoning behind removing it and several of the other options. I'm imagining continuing to argue in favor of adding it to the official version would be moot, so I'll retire that request in favor of a rather different one:

If I wanted to write a plugin (or hell, even a homebrew version if the plugin API isn't low-level enough for this) to turn highlight as temporary selection on and off, where should I look in the older versions' code to find how that toggle used to work? I've been meaning to look into Wings3D development for awhile now, and I figure this would be as good a way as any to get my feet wet.