Disable selection box in EditingTool

jesentanadi

Hi, I'm working on a tool that subclasses mojo.events.EditingTool. I'm implementing my own mouseDragged, but is there a way to "disable" the selection box that's drawn on mouseDragged?

This is what I mean:

Thanks!

jesentanadi

@frederik Ah, yes. I always forget about the help() function. Thanks!

frederik

this helps to find out what methods a class has, as not everything is documented on the site...

from mojo.events import EditingTool

help(EditingTool)

jesentanadi

@frederik Perfect. Thanks much!

frederik

The selection moves while dragging...

You can overwrite:

def dragSelection(self, point, delta):
     if myToolHasMySelection:
          # do you own dragging
     else:
         super().dragSelection(point, delta)

jesentanadi

@frederik both of those work (no more marquee), but both seem to be moving the whole segment when I drag (not pressing any keyboard keys).

Any idea why this is happening?

frederik

or you can add the following method to your subclass

def canSelectWithMarque(self):
    return False

see the polygonSelectionTool as example.

(side note: I don't know why this is not is added to the docs, will investigate)

frederik

In your subclass of the EditingTool you can overwrite getMarqueRect. Based on your selection (the line between the offcurves) you can return None or super the inherited class.

Something like this should work (pseudo code):

class MyTool(EditingTool):

    def getMarqueRect(self, offset=None, previousRect=False):
        if self.myToolSelection:
            return None
        return super(self, MyTool).getMarqueRect(offset, previousRect)

SOLVED Disable selection box in EditingTool